Manual:What is MediaWiki?
You probably know Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and may possibly be a little bit confused by similar, but different, words such as Wiki, Wikimedia or MediaWiki.
To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the article about the names where the differences are explained.
General overview[edit | edit source]
MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day.
MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL.
Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily.
When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. MediaWiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software.
MediaWiki 是什麼...[edit | edit source]
- MediaWiki 是一個 wiki 軟體。
- 如果你不知道什麼是 wiki，請先閱讀此文！
- MediaWiki 是一個伺服器軟體。
- 和其他的在網際網路上運行的軟體一樣，MediaWiki 中也可能有程式錯誤或安全問題。如果你不打算保持進行安全更新，請不要使用 MediaWiki (請訂閱以接受安全更新公告)。
- MediaWiki is geared towards the needs of the Wikimedia projects.
- The program was primarily developed to run on a large server farm for Wikipedia and its sister projects. Features, performance, configurability, ease-of-use, etc are often designed in this light; if your needs are radically different the software might not be appropriate for you.
- MediaWiki 是一個自由軟件。
- 不提供任何形式的擔保或保證。
Try out Wikitext[edit | edit source]
Yes, you can easily modify pages and you can (temporarily) publish dummy sentences, and you can even (temporarily) completely destroy a page in a wiki. You don't need to have any programming skills to do this.
We suggest you exercise yourself within our sandbox. Please isolate your testing there, though: the admins might not take too kindly to your mischief otherwise.
You can also look up the cheat sheet which contains basic formatting commands.
MediaWiki 做不好的一些事情...[edit | edit source]
- 由於 MediaWiki 是為開放內容而設計的，當你要限制對部分 wiki 內容的訪問時，該軟件往往是不合適的。
- MediaWiki 是設計用來服務於如維基百科這樣的大流量網站的。它已經針對這類網站進行了優化，對於一些在磁碟空間和記憶體佔用受到比流量更大限制的小網站，該軟件可能不是那麼合適。
- 如果你想使用專門的論壇/博客軟件，通常並不適合用 MediaWiki 來進行替代。
在以上情況下，可能有一些其他的 wiki 軟件（或非 wiki 軟件）更符合你的需要。
另見[edit | edit source]
- Manual:Deciding whether to use a wiki as your website type
- Manual:Deciding which wiki software to use
- Full list of MediaWiki features and Principles
- wikipedia:Comparison of wiki software
- www.wikimatrix.org — side-by-side comparison of various wiki engines.
