MediaWiki

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The MediaWiki logo. The brackets around the sunflower symbolise the way internal links are created when editing pages.

MediaWiki is the name of the software that runs most of the Wikipedias and its sister Wikimedia projects. The Simple English Wikipedia has been running on MediaWiki since 18 December, having previously been on UseMod. MediaWiki was previously called "Phase III".

The software is licensed under the GPL. This means it is free content, or open source.

Phase II was when Wikipedia first moved from the Usemod software to something written in PHP. The software uses an underlying MySQL relational dataabse. Other programmers are strongly urged to get involved.

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Information and discussion about this software can be found on the following pages:

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