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MediaWiki is the software program that runs Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

This User's Guide applies to the software used on versions of Wikipedia in many languages (including the largest one in English) and to Meta-Wikimedia, Test wiki, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and In Memoriam. It does not apply to the language versions of Wikipedia which are still using the older software. For help with those wikis, please goto http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/.

1. Architecture and overview (How to become a MediaWiki hacker and MediaWiki architecture may be good here)
2. Installation
   1. on Linux
   2. on Windows
   3. on Mac OS X
3. Configuration
4. Using MediaWiki
   1. Logging-in
   2. Setting preferences
   3. Editing pages
      1. Editing overview
      2. Starting a new page
      3. Adding images
      4. Using tables
      5. Using redirects
      6. Interwiki linking
      7. Renaming (moving) pages
      8. Reverting a page to an earlier version
      9. Editing mathematical formulae
      10. Creating special characters
          1. Creating Turkish characters
   4. Tracking changes
      1. The Recent Changes page
      2. The enhanced Recent Changes page
      3. Using the Related Changes function
      4. Using the Watchlist
   5. Reading
      1. Searching for pages
      2. Using the random page function
   6. Administration
      1. Deleting pages
      2. Restoring pages
      3. Protecting pages
      4. Banning IPs
5. Appendix
   1. ISBN links
   2. MediaWiki User's Guide:Common stop words
   3. Sites using MediaWiki
   4. Browser issues with MediaWiki
   5. URLs
6. Glossary
   1. The Go button
   2. Namespaces
   3. Edit summary
   4. Edit conflict
   5. Piped link
   6. Section editing
   7. Talk pages
   8. User contributions page

See also: Wikitech-l, GNU LilyPond support, MediaWiki feature requests and bug reports