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== Requirements ==
 
== Requirements ==
  
* '''MediaWiki 1.16 or above'''
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* '''MediaWiki 1.16 or above''' - full support.<br>'''MediaWiki 1.7 or above''' - limited features.
** Users of older MediaWiki versions can still use [[WikiDB/Legacy versions|an older version of WikiDB]], but this is unsupported.
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** <span style="color: #AA0000">''Support for MediaWiki < 1.16 will be dropped as of the first release of WikiDB on or after January 1st 2018.''</span>  Until that time, the following notes still apply.
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** Some features of WikiDB, most notably the ability to use the WikiDB tags within templates, are only available if you are using MediaWiki 1.16 or above.
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** Earlier versions are still supported, back to MediaWiki 1.7, but some features cannot be supported on these earlier versions due to limitations in MediaWiki.  You are recommended to upgrade to the latest version of MediaWiki to enable the full functionality of WikiDB.
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** Future development will continue to support and test against all versions of MediaWiki from 1.16.  Earlier versions will not be tested against, however where possible backwards-compatibility will be retained.
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** I will accept patches for any version of MediaWiki back to 1.7.
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** If you encounter any problems with a particular version of MW then please report it on the [[WikiDB/Bugs|bugs]] page.
 
* WikiDB supports the following database back-ends:
 
* WikiDB supports the following database back-ends:
 
** '''MySQL''' - Full support, well tested.
 
** '''MySQL''' - Full support, well tested.
 
** '''SQLite''' - Full support, not yet well tested.  Please report any problems (or successes!) via the [[WikiDB/Bugs|bugs]] page.
 
** '''SQLite''' - Full support, not yet well tested.  Please report any problems (or successes!) via the [[WikiDB/Bugs|bugs]] page.
 
** '''PostgreSQL''' - Full support, not yet well tested.  Please report any problems (or successes!) via the [[WikiDB/Bugs|bugs]] page.
 
** '''PostgreSQL''' - Full support, not yet well tested.  Please report any problems (or successes!) via the [[WikiDB/Bugs|bugs]] page.
* '''Shell access''' is required for the command-line setup scripts.  You can avoid this for a while by [[../Tables|manually creating the DB tables]] but it will probably not be possible to upgrade to later versions without being able to run these scripts.
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* '''Shell access''' is required for the command-line setup scripts.  You can avoid this for a while by [[../Tables|manually creating the DB tables]] but it will probably not possible to upgrade to later versions without being able to run these scripts.
  
 
The following instructions assume that you have already installed MediaWiki and that your wiki is fully-functional.
 
The following instructions assume that you have already installed MediaWiki and that your wiki is fully-functional.

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