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| Original author(s) | Magnus Manske, Lee Daniel Crocker |
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| Initial release | January 25, 2002 |
| Stable release | 1.29.0(July 13, 2017) |
| Preview release | 1.29.0-rc.1 (July 7, 2017) |
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| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, NetWare |
| Size | ~31 MB (compressed) |
| Available in | 198 languages |
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| License | GPLv2+ |
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Later, Brion Vibber, the Chief Technical Officer of the , took up the role of release manager and most active developer.
"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)
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 his content into the page as it now exists following the first user's page save. An optional extension gives selected user groups priority when edit conflicts occur.
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 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 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.
The red/blue distinction alerts:
Users can create new categories and add pages and files to those categories by appending one or more category tags to the content text. Adding these tags creates links at the bottom of the page that take the reader to the list of all pages in that category, making it easy to browse related articles. The use of categorization to organize content has been described as a combination of:
In addition to namespaces, content can be ordered using subpages. This simple feature provides automatic breadcrumbs of the pattern [[Page title/Subpage title]] from the page after the slash (in this case, "Subpage title") to the page before the slash (in this case, "Page title").
Templates are text blocks that can be dynamically loaded inside another page whenever that page is requested. The template is a special link in double curly brackets (for example "{{Disputed|date=October 2008}}"), which calls the template (in this case located at ) to load in place of the template call.
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