MediaWiki/Codebase

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Getting started

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So you want to learn the nuts and bolts of MediaWiki?

The best way to start is to just download MediaWiki! (... or you may want to just RTFM (Read The Fine Manual).

MediaWiki roadmap

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From MediaWiki.org:

There is currently no official roadmap for MediaWiki development. Since version 1.6, releases are quarterly snapshots of the development trunk, which is kept continuously in a runnable state. - read more

MediaWiki architecture

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MediaWiki General Architecture
User Layer Web Clients
Network Layer Apache Webserver
Logic Layer
MediaWiki's PHP scripts
PHP
Data Layer
File System MySQL Database Caching System

Learning projects

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