Wikipedia:MediaWiki
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Wikipedia and its sister
Wikimedia projects run on the same
GPL-ed
free software, called MediaWiki or Software Phase III,
see
m:MediaWiki. It was switched from
UseModWiki software ("Phase I") to new software, written especially for
Wikipedia using the
PHP programming language, on
January 25,
2002
("Phase II"), which was replaced by what is now called MediaWiki in June 2002.
Magnus Manske was the original author of the software, which is written in
PHP and uses an underlying
MySQL
relational database. The software is released under the
GPL.
Other programmers are strongly urged to get involved.
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