MediaWiki Software Engine

A MediaWiki Software Engine is a Wiki engine that renders text written in MediaWiki Markup Language to a web browser.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be a component of a MediaWiki Wiki Platform.
  • It can (typically) include an RDBMS.
  • It can drive a MediaWiki-based Wiki, such as: Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects), and GM-RKB Wiki.
  • It can support MediaWiki Server Namespaces, such as a MediaWiki Server Special Namespace.
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• Example(s):
  • MediaWiki 1.35 LTS [1] REL1_35 2020-07-25 (support until 2023-09)
  • MediaWiki 1.35.0-wmf.16 (d1b08c7)
  • MediaWiki 1.31 LTS REL1_31 2018-04-17
  • MediaWiki 1.27 LTS REL1_27 2016-05-31
  • MediaWiki 1.23 LTS REL1_23 2014-04-14
  • MediaWiki 1.19 LTS REL1_19 2012-02-09
  • MediaWiki 1.10 REL1_10 2007-04-30
  • MediaWiki 1.7 REL1_7 2006-07-06
  • MediaWiki 1.5 REL1_5 2005-07-31
  • MediaWiki 1.3 REL1_3 2004-05-22
  • MediaWiki 1.1 REL1_1 2003-12-08
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Semantic MediaWiki,
  • UseModWiki,
  • TikiWiki,
  • LaTeX Compiler.
• See: Browser Rendering Engine, WikiText, Wikimedia Meta-Wiki.

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References

2020a

• (MediaWiki, 2020) ⇒ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Retrieved: 2020-01-26.
  • QUOTE: The MediaWiki software is used by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organizations. It powers Wikipedia and also this website. MediaWiki helps you collect and organize knowledge and make it available to people. It's powerful, multilingual, free and open, extensible, customizable, reliable, and free of charge.

2020b

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki Retrieved:2020-1-26.
  • MediaWiki is a Free and open-source software|free and open-source wiki engine. It was developed for use on Wikipedia in 2002, and given the name "MediaWiki" in 2003 It remains in use on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki . MediaWiki was originally developed by Magnus Manske and improved by Lee Daniel Crocker . Its development has since then been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

    MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language and stores all text content into a database. The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second . Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has been a major concern for developers. Another major aspect of MediaWiki is its internationalization; its interface is available in more than 300 languages The software has more than 1,000 configuration settings and more than 1,800 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed .

    Besides its use on Wikimedia sites, MediaWiki has been used as a knowledge management and content management system on many thousands of websites, public and private, including the websites Fandom and wikiHow, and major internal installations like Intellipedia and Diplopedia.

2020c

• (Wikimedia, 2020) ⇒https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWikiRetrived:2020-01-26.
  • QUOTE: MediaWiki is wiki software, released under the GPL, that is used by Wikimedia projects and others. It is an implementation of a wiki, a content pool that anyone can freely edit. It is developed using Phabricator, our instance of Phacility's Phabricator.

     MediaWiki 1.31.1 is the latest stable version, and is recommended for third-party users. Those running their own servers should upgrade for security reasons. Special:Version shows what version a site is running. You can play around in the local Sandbox to see this version in action.

     MediaWiki 1.31.1 is available for download from MediaWiki.org, a site that is also responsible for the documentation of the software. MediaWiki 1.35.0-wmf.16 (d1b08c7) is currently running on all Wikimedia sites. Third-party users should probably not run the alpha/beta versions of MediaWiki on publicly accessible servers at this time.

2020d

• (Melli et al., 2020) ⇒ Gabor Melli, Abdelrhman Eldallal, Bassim Lazem, and Olga Moreira. (2020). “GM-RKB WikiText Error Correction Task and Baselines.”. In: Proceedings of LREC 2020 (LREC-2020).
  • QUOTE: Similar to the creation of websites in the early days of the Web; when websites content was crafted with HTML code by hand than transformed by a browser rendering engine into webpages, wikis content is created using WikiText (Dohrn & Riehle, 2011) written and edited predominantly by humans than parsed and rendered by a wiki engine (Dohrn & Riehle, 2011, Junghans et. al, 2008). WikiText is a simplified markup language that facilitates annotation of text documents. To create an internal link between annotated words (concept mentions) and a target wiki pages in Mediawiki markup, the editor simply needs to use double square brackets ("[[" and "]]"). For instance,
    A [[Character-Level Seq2Seq Training Algorithm|character-level seq2seq algorithm]] is a [[seq2seq algorithm]] that is a [[character-level NNet algorithm]]."

    tells the wiki engine to create a wikilink between the concept mentions character-level seq2seq algorithm, seq2seq algorithm, and character-level NNet algorithm to the corresponding wiki entries.

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