MediaWiki is een Wiki-engine, uitgegeven onder de GPL-licentie, die gebruikt kan worden om content te creëren en te beheren. Het wordt onder andere gebruikt voor de websites van de Wikimedia Foundation, zoals Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks en Wikiquote. Het uiterlijk is met behulp van skins geheel naar eigen wensen aan te passen, op deze pagina staan een aantal voorbeelden van verschillende skins. Versie 1.6.5 is sinds kort beschikbaar met de volgende release notes:
Version 1.6.5:Version 1.6.4:
- Rolled back the buggy patch for bug 5497
- Further improvements to Hebrew localisation
- (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left languages
- Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the appropriate arrow
- Remove live debugging hack which caused errors with certain database names
- (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces
- (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin]
- (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds
- (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload
- (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to conflicting anchor identifiers
- (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default.
- Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use
- (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check
- (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak
- (bug 5594) Id translation up to '# Login and logout pages' section
- (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link
- Minor improvements to English language files
- Improvements to German localisation files
- (bug 5628) Translations for MessagesHr.php
- (bug 5595, 5644) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs)
- (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation.
- (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement()
- Fix for concurrency problem in job queue (image description page invalidation)
- (bug 5497) regeression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>)
- (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories
- (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel
- Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if the connection fails
- (bug 5005): Fix XHTML <gallery> output.
- (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date).
- (bug 4825): note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation
- Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories
- Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes
- Updated initStats maintenance script
- (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted"
- (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext
- (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14