55-437: (Redirected from Mw ) MW or mW may refer to: Science and technology [ edit ] MediaWiki , (MW) the software that runs MediaWiki-powered websites Megawatt , (MW) a unit of power Milliwatt , (mW) one thousandth of a watt .mw , the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Malawi Medium wave , (MW) frequency range of 530 to 1700 kHz (commonly called
110-420: A "user contributions" option on a sidebar. In a 2004 article, Carl Challborn and Teresa Reimann noted that "While this feature may be a slight deviation from the collaborative, 'ego-less' spirit of wiki purists, it can be very useful for educators who need to assess the contribution and participation of individual student users." MediaWiki provides many features beyond hyperlinks for structuring content. One of
165-667: A 2009 Japanese film Mythic Warriors , a cartoon series MW (Indian magazine) , an Indian men's lifestyle magazine Companies [ edit ] Men's Wearhouse , a men's dress apparel retailer Merriam-Webster , an American publisher of dictionaries etc. Mountain West Conference , an American collegiate sports conference Mokulele Airlines (IATA airline designator MW) Places [ edit ] Malawi (ISO 3166-1 country code) Midwestern United States region Manhattan West , New York, NY, USA Other uses [ edit ] Master of Wine ,
220-453: A 2019 first person shooter MechWarrior , a video game series first released in 1989 Need for Speed: Most Wanted (disambiguation) , two racing video games released in 2005 and 2012 Other media [ edit ] MW (manga) , a manga series by Osamu Tezuka Miss World , an international beauty pageant Museums and the Web , an international conference series MW (film) ,
275-457: A MediaWiki-based wiki found that when they were asked an open question about main problems with the wiki, 24% cited technical problems with formatting, e.g. "Couldn't figure out how to get an image in. Can't figure out how to show a link with words; it inserts a number." To make editing long pages easier, MediaWiki allows the editing of a subsection of a page (as identified by its header). A registered user can also indicate whether or not an edit
330-453: A continuous feed of Recent Changes to an IRC channel that these tools can monitor, eliminating their need to send requests for a refreshed Recent Changes feed to the API. Another important tool is watchlisting. Each logged-in user has a watchlist to which the user can add whatever pages he or she wishes. When an edit is made to one of those pages, a summary of that edit appears on the watchlist
385-1192: A fictional character from Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer Places [ edit ] MUU, the Marconi station in Carnarvon, Wales, UK; see List of Marconi wireless stations Muu Waterfall (Korean: 무우폭포 ; Hanja: 舞雩瀑布 ), Gyeonggi, South Korea; see List of waterfalls in South Korea Other uses [ edit ] Yaaku language (ISO 639 language code muu ) of Kenya See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "muu" , "mu-u" , "m-uu" , or "m-u-u" on Misplaced Pages. Muus (surname) Muumuu (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with MUU All pages with titles containing MUU Moo (disambiguation) MMU (disambiguation) MU (disambiguation) MU2 (disambiguation) MW (disambiguation) MUV (disambiguation) MVU (disambiguation) MVV (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
440-535: A file called LocalSettings.php . Some aspects of MediaWiki can be configured through special pages or by editing certain pages; for instance, abuse filters can be configured through a special page, and certain gadgets can be added by creating JavaScript pages in the MediaWiki namespace. The MediaWiki community publishes a comprehensive installation guide. One of the earliest differences between MediaWiki (and its predecessor, UseModWiki ) and other wiki engines
495-514: A lesser degree, the Wikimedia Foundation's other projects. Fandom , a wiki hosting service formerly known as Wikia, runs on MediaWiki. Other public wikis that run on MediaWiki include wikiHow and SNPedia . WikiLeaks began as a MediaWiki-based site, but is no longer a wiki. A number of alternative wiki encyclopedias to Misplaced Pages run on MediaWiki, including Citizendium , Metapedia , Scholarpedia and Conservapedia . MediaWiki
550-596: A major concern for developers. Another major aspect of MediaWiki is its internationalization; its interface is available in more than 400 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. MediaWiki is free and open-source and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. Its documentation, located at its official website at www.mediawiki.org,
605-590: A new logo was initiated on June 22, 2020, as the old logo was a bitmap image and had "high details", leading to problems when rendering at high and low resolutions, respectively. After two rounds of voting, the new and current MediaWiki logo designed by Serhio Magpie was selected on October 24, 2020, and officially adopted on April 1, 2021. The first version of MediaWiki, 1.1, was released in December 2003. MediaWiki's most famous use has been in Misplaced Pages and, to
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#1732791956039660-481: A wide variety of uploaded media files. Its richest functionality is in the area of images, where image galleries and thumbnails can be generated with relative ease. There is also support for Exif metadata . The use of MediaWiki to operate the Wikimedia Commons , one of the largest free content media archives, has driven the need for further functionality in this area. For WYSIWYG editing, VisualEditor
715-500: A wine expertise qualification Miracle Whip , a brand of mayonnaise See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "mw" or "m-w" on Misplaced Pages. MWI (disambiguation) MW-1 , a German munitions dispenser MWA (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with MW All pages with titles containing MW MUU (disambiguation) MUV (disambiguation) MVU (disambiguation) MVV (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
770-511: Is also used for feature and enhancement requests. When Misplaced Pages was launched in January 2001, it ran on an existing wiki software system, UseModWiki . UseModWiki is written in the Perl programming language, and stores all wiki pages in text ( .txt ) files. This software soon proved to be limiting, in both functionality and performance. In mid-2001, Magnus Manske —a developer and student at
825-803: Is also used internally by a large number of companies, including Novell and Intel . Notable usages of MediaWiki within governments include Intellipedia , used by the United States Intelligence Community , Diplopedia , used by the United States Department of State , and milWiki, a part of milSuite used by the United States Department of Defense . United Nations agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme and INSTRAW chose to implement their wikis using MediaWiki, because "this software runs Misplaced Pages and
880-400: Is available to use in MediaWiki which simplifying editing process for editors and has been bundled since MediaWiki 1.35. Other extensions exist for handling WYSIWYG editing to different degrees. Among the features of MediaWiki to assist in tracking edits is a Recent Changes feature that provides a list of recent edits to the wiki. This list contains basic information about those edits such as
935-503: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages MediaWiki MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software originally developed by Magnus Manske for use on Misplaced Pages on January 25, 2002, and further improved by Lee Daniel Crocker , after which development has been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation . It powers several wiki hosting websites across
990-422: Is largely incompatible with MediaWiki. Cloud hosting can eliminate the need to deploy a new server. An installation PHP script is accessed via a web browser to initialize the wiki's settings. It prompts the user for a minimal set of required parameters, leaving further changes, such as enabling uploads, adding a site logo, and installing extensions, to be made by modifying configuration settings contained in
1045-405: Is minor. Correcting spelling, grammar or punctuation are examples of minor edits, whereas adding paragraphs of new text is an example of a non-minor edit. Sometimes while one user is editing, a second user saves an edit to the same part of the page. Then, when the first user attempts to save the page, an edit conflict occurs. The second user is then given an opportunity to merge their content into
1100-545: Is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license and partly in the public domain . Specifically, the manuals and other content at MediaWiki.org are Creative Commons -licensed, while the set of help pages intended to be freely copied into fresh wiki installations and/or distributed with MediaWiki software is public domain. This was done to eliminate legal issues arising from the help pages being imported into wikis with licenses that are incompatible with
1155-495: Is therefore guaranteed to be thoroughly tested, will continue to be developed well into the future, and future technicians on these wikis will be more likely to have exposure to MediaWiki than any other wiki software." The Free Software Foundation uses MediaWiki to implement the LibrePlanet site. MediaWiki provides a rich core feature set and a mechanism to attach extensions to provide additional functionality. Due to
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#17327919560391210-579: Is to allow content to be separated from discussion surrounding the content. MUU (disambiguation) (Redirected from MUU (disambiguation) ) MUU , muu , or, variation , may refer to: People and characters [ edit ] Muu Blanco (born 1966), Venezuelan artist Muu Ki Hien (born 1963; simplified Chinese: 巫启贤 ; traditional Chinese: 巫啟賢 ), Malaysian singer-songwriter; see List of Hakka people Fictional characters [ edit ] Muu (Japanese: ムー , romanized: Mū ),
1265-462: 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 views per second. Because Misplaced Pages is one of the world's largest and most visited websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has been
1320-506: The University of Cologne , as well as a Misplaced Pages editor —began working on new software that would replace UseModWiki, specifically designed for use by Misplaced Pages. This software was written in the PHP scripting language, and stored all of its information in a MySQL database. The new software was largely developed by August 24, 2001, and a test wiki for it was established shortly thereafter. The first full implementation of this software
1375-482: The Wikimedia Foundation , took up the role of release manager . Major milestones in MediaWiki's development have included: the categorization system (2004); parser functions, (2006); Flagged Revisions , (2008); the " ResourceLoader ", a delivery system for CSS and JavaScript (2011); and the VisualEditor , a "what you see is what you get" ( WYSIWYG ) editing platform (2013). The contest of designing
1430-503: The Wikimedia Foundation . MediaWiki developers participate in the Google Summer of Code by facilitating the assignment of mentors to students wishing to work on MediaWiki core and extension projects. During the year prior to November 2012, there were about two hundred developers who had committed changes to the MediaWiki core or extensions. Major MediaWiki releases are generated approximately every six months by taking snapshots of
1485-506: The AM band) Molecular weight, a former term for molecular mass Microwave , a type of electromagnetic wave Moment magnitude scale (M w ), a measure of earthquake size Weight average molecular weight .mw, the file extension of a Maple (software) worksheet Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Games [ edit ] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare , a 2007 first person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ,
1540-528: The API. MediaWiki supports rich content generated through specialized syntax. For example, the software comes with optional support for rendering mathematical formulas using LaTeX and a special parser written in OCaml named texvc. Similar functionality for other content, ranging from graphical timelines over mathematical plotting and musical scores to Egyptian hieroglyphs , is available via extensions. The software has become more powerful at dealing with
1595-514: The API. The API is accessed via URLs such as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges . In this case, the query would be asking Misplaced Pages for information relating to the last 10 edits to the site. One of the perceived advantages of the API is its language independence; it listens for HTTP connections from clients and can send a response in a variety of formats, such as XML , serialized PHP, or JSON . Client code has been developed to provide layers of abstraction to
1650-525: The Creative Commons license. MediaWiki's development has generally favored the use of open-source media formats . MediaWiki has an active volunteer community for development and maintenance. Users who have made meaningful contributions to the project by submitting patches are generally, upon request, granted access to commit revisions to the project's Git / Gerrit repository . There are also paid programmers who primarily develop projects for
1705-538: The Internet, as well as most websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation including Misplaced Pages, Wiktionary , Wikimedia Commons , Wikiquote , Meta-Wiki and Wikidata , which define a large part of the set requirements for the software. Besides its usage on Wikimedia sites, MediaWiki has been used as a knowledge management and content management system on websites such as Fandom , wikiHow and major internal installations like Intellipedia and Diplopedia . MediaWiki
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1760-531: The MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle, are designed to further enhance the multilingualism and internationalization of MediaWiki. Installation of MediaWiki requires that the user have administrative privileges on a server running both PHP and a compatible type of SQL database . Some users find that setting up a virtual host is helpful if the majority of one's site runs under a framework (such as Zope or Ruby on Rails ) that
1815-421: The data contained in the MediaWiki databases. Client programs can use the API to log in, get data, and post changes. The API supports thin web-based JavaScript clients and end-user applications (such as vandal-fighting tools). The API can be accessed by the backend of another web site. An extensive Python bot library, Pywikibot , and a popular semi-automated tool called AutoWikiBrowser , also interface with
1870-441: The development branch, which is kept continuously in a runnable state; minor releases , or point releases , are issued as needed to correct bugs (especially security problems). MediaWiki is developed on a continuous integration development model, in which software changes are pushed live to Wikimedia sites on regular basis. MediaWiki also has a public bug tracker, phabricator.wikimedia.org , which runs Phabricator . The site
1925-692: The differences between wiki markup and HTML: "Take some more tea ," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take less ," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing." (Quotation above from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ) MediaWiki's default page-editing tools have been described as somewhat challenging to learn. A survey of students assigned to use
1980-441: The earliest such features is namespaces . One of Misplaced Pages's earliest problems had been the separation of encyclopedic content from pages pertaining to maintenance and communal discussion, as well as personal pages about encyclopedia editors. Namespaces are prefixes before a page title (such as " User: " or " Talk: ") that serve as descriptors for the page's purpose and allow multiple pages with different functions to exist under
2035-451: The editing user, the edit summary, the page edited, as well as any tags (e.g. "possible vandalism ") added by customizable abuse filters and other extensions to aid in combating unhelpful edits. On more active wikis, so many edits occur that it is hard to track Recent Changes manually. Anti-vandal software, including user-assisted tools, is sometimes employed on such wikis to process Recent Changes items. Server load can be reduced by sending
2090-478: The next time it is refreshed. As with the recent changes page, recent edits that appear on the watchlist contain clickable links for easy review of the article history and specific changes made. There is also the capability to review all edits made by any particular user. In this way, if an edit is identified as problematic, it is possible to check the user's other edits for issues. MediaWiki allows one to link to specific versions of articles. This has been useful to
2145-553: The page as it now exists following the first user's page save. MediaWiki's user interface has been localized in many different languages. A language for the wiki content itself can also be set, to be sent in the "Content-Language" HTTP header and "lang" HTML attribute . VisualEditor has its own integrated wikitext editing interface known as 2017 wikitext editor, the older editing interface is known as 2010 wikitext editor. MediaWiki has an extensible web API ( application programming interface ) that provides direct, high-level access to
2200-490: The purpose of creating an encyclopedia, where accuracy in titles is important. MediaWiki uses an extensible lightweight wiki markup designed to be easier to use and learn than HTML . Tools exist for converting content such as tables between MediaWiki markup and HTML. Efforts have been made to create a MediaWiki markup spec, but a consensus seems to have been reached that Wikicode requires context-sensitive grammar rules. The following side-by-side comparison illustrates
2255-614: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MUU . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MUU&oldid=1253908631 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles containing Korean-language text Short description
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2310-401: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MW&oldid=1235196305 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
2365-489: The same title. For instance, a page titled " [[The Terminator]] ", in the default namespace, could describe the 1984 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger , while a page titled " [[User:The Terminator]] " could be a profile describing a user who chooses this name as a pseudonym. More commonly, each namespace has an associated " Talk: " namespace, which can be used to discuss its contents, such as " User talk: " or " Template talk: ". The purpose of having discussion pages
2420-415: The same topic in other editions of Misplaced Pages. This was superseded by the launch of Wikidata. Page tabs are displayed at the top of pages. These tabs allow users to perform actions or view pages that are related to the current page. The available default actions include viewing, editing, and discussing the current page. The specific tabs displayed depend on whether the user is logged into the wiki and whether
2475-464: The same way as namespaces. A set of interwiki prefixes can be configured to cause, for instance, a page title of wikiquote:Jimbo Wales to direct the user to the Jimbo Wales article on Wikiquote . Unlike internal wikilinks, interwiki links lack page existence detection functionality, and accordingly there is no way to tell whether a blue interwiki link is broken or not. Interlanguage links are
2530-698: The scientific community, in that expert peer reviewers could analyse articles, improve them and provide links to the trusted version of that article. Navigation through the wiki is largely through internal wikilinks. MediaWiki's wikilinks implement page existence detection, in which a link is colored blue if the target page exists on the local wiki and red if it does not. If a user clicks on a red link, they are prompted to create an article with that title. Page existence detection makes it practical for users to create "wikified" articles—that is, articles containing links to other pertinent subjects—without those other articles being yet in existence. Interwiki links function much
2585-401: The small navigation links that show up in the sidebar in most MediaWiki skins that connect an article with related articles in other languages within the same Wiki family. This can provide language-specific communities connected by a larger context, with all wikis on the same server or each on its own server. Previously, Misplaced Pages used interlanguage links to link an article to other articles on
2640-484: The strong emphasis on multilingualism in the Wikimedia projects, internationalization and localization has received significant attention by developers. The user interface has been fully or partially translated into more than 400 languages on translatewiki.net , and can be further customized by site administrators (the entire interface is editable through the wiki). Several extensions, most notably those collected in
2695-489: The user has sysop privileges on the wiki. For instance, the ability to move a page or add it to one's watchlist is usually restricted to logged-in users. The site administrator can add or remove tabs by using JavaScript or installing extensions. Each page has an associated history page from which the user can access every version of the page that has ever existed and generate diffs between two versions of his choice. Users' contributions are displayed not only here, but also via
2750-522: Was also written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, and kept the basic interface of the phase II software, but with the added functionality of a wider scalability . The "phase III" software went live on Misplaced Pages in July 2002. The Wikimedia Foundation was announced on June 20, 2003. In July, Misplaced Pages contributor Daniel Mayer suggested the name "MediaWiki" for the software, as a play on "Wikimedia". The MediaWiki name
2805-427: Was chosen to represent MediaWiki rather than Misplaced Pages, with the second place logo being used for the Wikimedia Foundation. The double square brackets ( [[ ]] ) symbolize the syntax MediaWiki uses for creating hyperlinks to other wiki pages; while the sunflower represents the diversity of content on Misplaced Pages, its constant growth, and the wilderness. Later, Brooke Vibber , the chief technical officer of
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#17327919560392860-516: Was gradually phased in, beginning in August 2003. The name has frequently caused confusion due to its (intentional) similarity to the "Wikimedia" name (which itself is similar to "Misplaced Pages"). The old product logo was created by Erik Möller , using a flower photograph taken by Florence Nibart-Devouard , and was originally submitted to the logo contest for a new Misplaced Pages logo , held from July 20 to August 27, 2003. The logo came in third place, and
2915-504: Was the new Meta Misplaced Pages on November 9, 2001. There was a desire to have it implemented immediately on the English-language Misplaced Pages. However, Manske was apprehensive about any potential bugs harming the nascent website during the period of the final exams he had to complete immediately prior to Christmas; this led to the launch on the English-language Misplaced Pages being delayed until January 25, 2002. The software
2970-463: Was the use of " free links " instead of CamelCase . When MediaWiki was created, it was typical for wikis to require text like "WorldWideWeb" to create a link to a page about the World Wide Web ; links in MediaWiki, on the other hand, are created by surrounding words with double square brackets, and any spaces between them are left intact, e.g. [[World Wide Web]] . This change was logical for
3025-491: Was then, gradually, deployed on all the Misplaced Pages language sites of that time. This software was referred to as "the PHP script" and as "phase II", with the name "phase I", retroactively given to the use of UseModWiki. Increasing usage soon caused load problems to arise again, and soon after, another rewrite of the software began; this time being done by Lee Daniel Crocker , which became known as "phase III". This new software
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