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It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" class="extiw" title="en:Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> and by <a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki" title="Sites using MediaWiki">many other wikis</a>, including this website, the home of MediaWiki. <p>Use the links below to explore the site contents. You'll find some content translated into other languages, but the primary documentation language is English.</p> For general questions about MediaWiki see the <a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication" title="Communication">communication page</a>. If you have a question about this wiki, please visit <a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Forum" title="Project:Forum">the forum</a>.</div> <div id="mainpage_sitelinks"> <p><b><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:About" title="Project:About">About this site</a></b>   |   <b><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_does_MediaWiki_work%3F" title="How does MediaWiki work?">About MediaWiki</a></b>   |   <b><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download" title="Download">Download</a></b>   |   <b><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Help" title="Project:Help">Help and support</a></b></p> </div> </div> <div style="background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; margin: 0.2em 10px 10px; padding:0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; font-size: 125%"> <p><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009" title="Project:Developer meet-up 2009"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bulbgraph.svg/40px-Bulbgraph.svg.png" width="40" height="49" border="0"/></a> The <a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009" title="Project:Developer meet-up 2009">MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up</a> has just wrapped up <b>April 3-5, 2009</b> in Berlin! Some <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://techblog.wikimedia.org/" class="external text" title="http://techblog.wikimedia.org/" rel="nofollow">announcements on the tech blog</a>, more cool stuff to come.</p> </div> <table style="border:0; margin: 0;" width="100%" cellspacing="10"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mainpage_hubbox"> <div class="mainpage_hubtitle"><b>Users</b></div> <div class="mainpage_boxcontents"> <table style="border: 0; margin: 0;" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_hub" title="User hub"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Crystal_Clear_app_display.png/80px-Crystal_Clear_app_display.png" width="80" height="80" border="0"/></a></td> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" class="extiw" title="w:Wiki">What is a wiki?</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Navigation" title="Help:Navigation">Navigation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages" title="Help:Editing pages">How to edit a page</a></li> <li><i><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_hub" title="User hub">More...</a></i></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="mainpage_hubbox"> <div class="mainpage_hubtitle"><b>System administrators</b></div> <div class="mainpage_boxcontents"> <table style="border: 0; margin: 0;" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hub" title="Sysadmin hub"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Crystal_Clear_app_terminal.png/80px-Crystal_Clear_app_terminal.png" width="80" height="80" border="0"/></a></td> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation" title="Installation">Installing</a> / <a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading" title="Manual:Upgrading" class="mw-redirect">Upgrading</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration" title="Manual:Configuration">Configuring</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions" title="Category:Extensions">Third-party extensions</a></li> <li><i><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hub" title="Sysadmin hub">More...</a></i></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="mainpage_hubbox"> <div class="mainpage_hubtitle"><b>Developers</b></div> <div class="mainpage_boxcontents"> <table style="border: 0; margin: 0;" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub" title="Developer hub"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Crystal_Clear_app_tutorials.png/80px-Crystal_Clear_app_tutorials.png" width="80" height="80" border="0"/></a></td> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker" title="How to become a MediaWiki hacker">Submitting a patch</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access" title="Commit access">SVN commit access</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents" title="Manual:Contents">Reference manual</a></li> <li><i><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub" title="Developer hub">More...</a></i></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border:0; margin: 0;" width="100%" cellspacing="10"> <tr> <td valign="top" id="mainpage_downloadcell"> <div class="mainpage_boxtitle"><b>Current versions</b></div> <div class="mainpage_boxcontents_small"> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:110%;"><b><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.14" title="Release notes/1.14">1.14.0</a></b> – 2009-02-22</span><br/></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.13" title="Release notes/1.13">1.13.5</a> – 2009-02-22<br/></li> <li><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.6" title="Release notes/1.6">1.6.12</a> – 2009-02-07</li> </ul> <table class="plainlinks" style="border:2px outset #cccccc; background:#dddddd; margin:10px auto 0; padding:5px; white-space:nowrap; width:90%; text-align:center;"> <tr> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.14/mediawiki-1.14.0.tar.gz"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Nuvola_apps_download_manager.png/40px-Nuvola_apps_download_manager.png" width="40" height="40" border="0"/></a></td> <td style="padding-left:0; font-size:130%; font-weight:bold;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.14/mediawiki-1.14.0.tar.gz" class="external text" title="http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.14/mediawiki-1.14.0.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">Download<br/> 1.14.0</a></td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin:0 auto; text-align:center; width:90%; font-size:90%;"> <p><i><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download" title="Download">Download other releases</a></i></p> </div> </div> </td> <td valign="top" id="mainpage_newscell"> <div class="mainpage_boxtitle"><b>News</b></div> <div class="mainpage_boxcontents_small"> <ul> <li><b>2009-02-22</b>: <b>1.14.0, 1.13.5 released</b> <dl> <dd><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Symbol_OK.svg" class="image" title="Release"><img alt="Release" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Symbol_OK.svg/18px-Symbol_OK.svg.png" width="18" height="18" border="0"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000084.html" class="external text" title="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000084.html" rel="nofollow">MediaWiki 1.14.0 quarterly release</a> available</dd> <dd><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Bulbgraph.svg" class="image" title="Maintenance update"><img alt="Maintenance update" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Bulbgraph.svg/18px-Bulbgraph.svg.png" width="18" height="22" border="0"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000084.html" class="external text" title="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000084.html" rel="nofollow">MediaWiki 1.13.5 bugfix release</a> available</dd> </dl> </li> <li><b>2009-02-07</b>: <b>1.13.4, 1.12.4, 1.6.12, and 1.14.0rc1 released</b> <dl> <dd><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Attention_niels_epting.svg" class="image" title="Security"><img alt="Security" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Attention_niels_epting.svg/18px-Attention_niels_epting.svg.png" width="18" height="18" border="0"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000083.html" class="external text" title="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000083.html" rel="nofollow">Security updates</a> available</dd> <dd><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Symbol_OK.svg" class="image" title="Release"><img alt="Release" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Symbol_OK.svg/18px-Symbol_OK.svg.png" width="18" height="18" border="0"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000083.html" class="external text" title="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000083.html" rel="nofollow">MediaWiki 1.14.0rc1 release candidate</a> available</dd> </dl> </li> <li><b>2008-12-15</b>: <b>1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 released</b> <dl> <dd><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Attention_niels_epting.svg" class="image" title="Security"><img alt="Security" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Attention_niels_epting.svg/18px-Attention_niels_epting.svg.png" width="18" height="18" border="0"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html" class="external text" title="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-December/000080.html" rel="nofollow">Security updates</a> available</dd> </dl> </li> <li><b>2008-10-02</b>: <b>1.13.2, 1.12.1 released</b> <dl> <dd><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Attention_niels_epting.svg" class="image" title="Security"><img alt="Security" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Attention_niels_epting.svg/18px-Attention_niels_epting.svg.png" width="18" height="18" border="0"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078.html" class="external text" title="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078.html" rel="nofollow">Security updates</a> MediaWiki 1.13.2 and 1.12.1 available</dd> </dl> </li> <li><b><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/News" title="News">Older news...</a></b></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="LanguageLinks"> <table width="100%"> <tr valign="top" style="background: #EEF3E2"> <td style="width: 25px; padding-left: 0.5em;"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Geographylogo.png" class="image" title="Languages"><img alt="Languages" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Geographylogo.png/25px-Geographylogo.png" width="25" height="25" border="0"/></a></td> <td style="width: 10px; white-space: nowrap; 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href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/bg" title="MediaWiki/bg">Български</a></span>  • <span lang="br" xml:lang="br"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/br" title="MediaWiki/br">Brezhoneg</a></span>  • <span lang="ca" xml:lang="ca"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/ca" title="MediaWiki/ca">Català</a></span>  • <span lang="cs" xml:lang="cs"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/cs" title="MediaWiki/cs">Česky</a></span>  • <span lang="de" xml:lang="de"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/de" title="MediaWiki/de">Deutsch</a></span>  • <span lang="el" xml:lang="el"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/el" title="MediaWiki/el">Ελληνικά</a></span>  • <span lang="es" xml:lang="es"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/es" title="MediaWiki/es">Español</a></span>  • <span lang="fa" xml:lang="fa"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/fa" title="MediaWiki/fa">فارسی</a></span>  • <span lang="fi" xml:lang="fi"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/fi" title="MediaWiki/fi">Suomi</a></span>  • <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/fr" title="MediaWiki/fr">Français</a></span>  • <span lang="gl" xml:lang="gl"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/gl" title="MediaWiki/gl">Galego</a></span>  • <span lang="he" xml:lang="he"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/he" title="MediaWiki/he">עברית</a></span>  • <span lang="hu" xml:lang="hu"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/hu" title="MediaWiki/hu">Magyar</a></span>  • <span lang="id" xml:lang="id"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/id" title="MediaWiki/id">Bahasa 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title="MediaWiki/nl">Nederlands</a></span>  • <span lang="no" xml:lang="no"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/no" title="MediaWiki/no">‪Norsk (bokmål)‬</a></span>  • <span lang="oc" xml:lang="oc"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/oc" title="MediaWiki/oc">Occitan</a></span>  • <span lang="pl" xml:lang="pl"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/pl" title="MediaWiki/pl">Polski</a></span>  • <span lang="pt" xml:lang="pt"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/pt" title="MediaWiki/pt">Português</a></span>  • <span lang="ro" xml:lang="ro"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/ro" title="MediaWiki/ro">Română</a></span>  • <span lang="ru" xml:lang="ru"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/ru" title="MediaWiki/ru">Русский</a></span>  • <span lang="si" xml:lang="si"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/si" title="MediaWiki/si">සිංහල</a></span>  • <span lang="sq" xml:lang="sq"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/sq" title="MediaWiki/sq">Shqip</a></span>  • <span lang="sv" xml:lang="sv"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/sv" title="MediaWiki/sv">Svenska</a></span>  • <span lang="tr" xml:lang="tr"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/tr" title="MediaWiki/tr">Türkçe</a></span>  • <span lang="uk" xml:lang="uk"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/uk" title="MediaWiki/uk">Українська</a></span>  • <span lang="vi" xml:lang="vi"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/vi" title="MediaWiki/vi">Tiếng Việt</a></span>  • <span lang="yue" xml:lang="yue"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/yue" title="MediaWiki/yue">粵語</a></span>  • <span lang="zh" xml:lang="zh"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/zh" title="MediaWiki/zh">中文</a></span>  • <span lang="zh-hans" xml:lang="zh-hans"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/zh-hans" title="MediaWiki/zh-hans">‪中文(简体)‬</a></span>  • <span lang="zh-hant" xml:lang="zh-hant"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/zh-hant" title="MediaWiki/zh-hant">‪中文(繁體)‬</a></span>  • <span lang="zh-tw" xml:lang="zh-tw"><a href="/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/zh-tw" title="MediaWiki/zh-tw" class="mw-redirect">‪中文(台灣)‬</a></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div>   <div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420180738/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki</a>"</div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks"><a 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