Name : mediawiki Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.16.4 Release : 58.fc15 URL : http://www.mediawiki.org/ Summary : A wiki engine Description : MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers
This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances under /usr/share/doc/mediawiki-1.16.4/README.RPM. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.
This update brings mediawiki to version 1.16.4, which is the latest stable release at the moment, but currently also the only supported and recommended release by the mediawiki developer community.
Further changes: * some simple wiki management functionality was added: * mw-createinstance <path> creates a wiki instance under <path>, which is autoupgraded upon package updates. * any wiki path entered in /etc/mediawiki/instances will be autoupgraded upon package updates. * /var/www/wiki is entered into this list automatically, but you can remove it if you don't want this instance to be autoupgraded. * opensearch and suggestions are enabled by default * several bug fixes (see changelog). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - References:
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mediawiki' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
