MediaWiki: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 03:30, 4 January 2023

MediaWiki is the free and open-source wiki software that powers ProleWiki. It was developed in 2002 for use on Wikipedia, but since its codebase is open source, many other wiki sites use it. For example, Cuba's EcuRed, Leftypedia, and Wikispooks.

Given ProleWiki's reliance on MediaWiki, we advise our contributors to familiarize with their documentation. And if you're particularly technical, you could even contribute to the open source MediaWiki codebase which will eventually trickle down to ProleWiki (when we do our regular updates)

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-'''MediaWiki''' is [[Free and open-source software|free and open-source]] wiki software. It was developed in 2002 for use on Wikipedia, but since its codebase is open source, many other wiki sites have been built atop it, including this site, ProleWiki.
+'''MediaWiki''' is the [[Free and open-source software|free and open-source]] wiki software that powers [[ProleWiki]]. It was developed in 2002 for use on Wikipedia, but since its codebase is open source, many other wiki sites use it. For example, Cuba's [[EcuRed]], [[Leftypedia]], and [[Wikispooks]].
-Other notable wiki sites that are of particular interest to our project here at ProleWiki are Cuba's [[EcuRed]], [[Leftypedia]], and Wikispooks (the former of which sometimes has right-wing analyses, but it sometimes does a good job at exposing the bourgeoisie)
+Given ProleWiki's reliance on MediaWiki, we advise our contributors to familiarize with [[mediawikiwiki:Documentation|their documentation]]. And if you're particularly technical, you could even contribute to the open source [[mediawikiwiki:Developer_hub|MediaWiki codebase]] which will eventually trickle down to ProleWiki (when we do our regular updates)
 [[Category:Wikis]]
+[[Category:Free and open-source software]]