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'''Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.''' (born [[September 25]], [[1980]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], USA), best known by the [[stage name]] '''T.I.''', is an [[United States|American]] [[Grammy Award]]-winning [[Rapping|rapper]], [[songwriter]], [[actor]], [[Record Producer|record]] and [[Executive producer#Music|executive producer]] as well as the Co-[[CEO]] of [[Grand Hustle Records]]. T.I. is also the leader of the southern rap group [[P$C]].
'''MediaWiki''' is a [[World Wide Web|web-based]] [[wiki software]] application used by all projects of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], all wikis hosted by [[Wikia]], and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://s23.org/wikistats/wikis_html.php| title = WikiStats by S23 - List of largest wikis| accessdate = }}<!--| author = "mutante"--></ref> Originally developed to serve the needs of the [[free content]] [[Wikipedia]] encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies as an internal [[knowledge management]] solution, and as a [[content management system]]. Notably, [[Novell]] uses it to operate several of its high traffic websites, which are not editable by the general public.<ref>e.g.: http://developer.novell.com/ ; http://hula-project.org/ ; http://en.opensuse.org/ ; http://www.ifolder.com/</ref>
In 2005, he launched his own film production company called ''Grand Hustle Films'', signed a multi-artist joint venture deal for his label with [[Atlantic Records]], and established a music publishing deal for ''Grand Hustle Music'' with Warner Chappell.
According to his Grand Hustle website, T.I. has a clothing line; ''AKOO'' (A King Of Oneself) launching later in 2007.
==Background==
T.I. grew up in the [[Bankhead (Atlanta)|Bankhead]] neighborhood of [[Atlanta, Georgia]], born to Violetta and Clifford Harris Sr. His original stage name, T.I.P., stems from his childhood nickname "Tip", which he got from his grandfather. T.I. was first exposed to hip-hop at the age of seven, and by the time he was 11 he had decided to pursue a career in rap seriously, he signed his first record deal at age 19.
Due to his [[Southern American English|Southern]] drawl, many fans mistook his name for "Chip", so he began spelling it out "T.I.P". Upon signing with [[Arista Records]] subsidiary [[LaFace Records]] in 2001, he shortened his name to T.I. out of respect for label mate [[Q-Tip (rapper)|Q-Tip]].
He is also known to go by "Rubberband Man" and the self-proclaimed "King of the South" (which has created several cases of controversy between other southern rappers, such as [[Lil' Flip]] and [[Ludacris]]). He served as [[Bow Wow]]'s ghostwriter for a while, he also wrote about 30% percent of his third album [[Unleashed (Bow Wow album)|Unleashed]], he wrote the 3rd verse and chorus to his single "Let's Get Down".<ref>Yahoo Music. [http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12043613 "Bow Wow Says 'Let's Get Down'"]</ref> He has written [[lyrics]] for other artists such as [[Sean Combs|Diddy]], [[Ciara]] & [[Lil Kim]].
T.I. is known for his rapid-fire delivery of lyrics, there were also some noticeable changes in the way he flowed through out his career. Earlier in his career he flowed in a slow-like, southern fashion which can be heard in songs like "I'm Serious", "24's" and "Never Scared". In the second era of his career, he sound more relaxed and laid back (ex. "Bring Em Out","Soldier",What You Know,"U Don't Know Me" & "ASAP"). Later on in his career his flow went from a slow and drowsy effect (ex. Top Back, and Drive Slow) to a faster flow which can be heard in "We Takin Over", Touch, "My Love", "Make It Rain Remix" & I'm a Flirt Remix. T.I.'s flow continues to change through out every song he appears on, illustrating his control and expertise at being able to adapt to any beat that is presented to him.
==Music career==
=== I'm Serious ===
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His debut album ''[[I'm Serious]]'' was released through [[Arista Records]], which spawned the single of the same title which featured [[reggae]] vocalist [[Beenie Man]]. His debut album included [[Pharrell Williams]] of [[The Neptunes]] (who named him the [[Jay-Z]] of the south), [[Jazze Pha]] and [[Youngbloodz]]. Production by [[Pharrell]], [[DJ Toomp]], and The Grand Hustle Team. However, the album did not sell very well, and he was dropped from the label. The album sold 268,000 copies.
T.I. released the first single "I'm Serious" with [[Beenie Man]]. The single had little airplay, but failed to meet the charts. The label wouldn't release another single or video for the album, so he went and created a video for "Dope Boyz", the video nor the single been released.
He released several mixtapes with the assistance of [[DJ Drama]], which created an underground buzz. He resurfaced in the summer of 2003 on [[Bonecrusher]]'s song "Neva Scared". He parlayed this attention towards the release of his second album, ''[[Trap Muzik]]''. Undaunted, he formed [[Grand Hustle Records]] (distributed by [[Atlantic Records]]) in 2003 with his manager Jason Geter. T.I. and Jeter decided to create the label shortly after being dropped by [[Arista Records]].
=== Trap Muzik ===
T.I. released ''Trap Muzik'' in the summer of 2003 and it debuted #4 and sold 193,000 copies in its first week.<ref name"">{{cite web
}}</ref> It was more of a success than his debut album because of the singles "[[24's]]", "[[Be Easy (T.I. Song)|Be Easy]]", "[[Rubberband Man]]", and "Let's Get Away". The album featured guest appearances by [[Eightball & MJG]], [[Jazze Pha]], [[Bun B]], & Macboney and producers include [[Jazze Pha]], [[Kanye West]], [[David Banner]], & [[DJ Toomp]]. The success of the album was followed by some controversy: while on tour, T.I. was charged with violating his [[probation]] over a [[2003]] drug charge, and turned himself in. He was sentenced to three years in [[prison]]. While there he was granted rights to film the [[music video]] for "Let's Get Away". ''Trap Muzik'' was released through [[Grand Hustle Records]] and sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and was certified Platinum.
T.I. released [[24's]] as the first single. It had reached #78 in the U.S. #27 on the U.S. R&B chart, and #15 on the Rap charts. ''[[24's]]'' can be heard in movies and television.
"[[Be Easy (T.I. Song)|Be Easy]]" was chosen as the second single, the single wasn't successful as the first single, but it reached #55 on the U.S. R&B charts.
''[[Rubberband Man]]'' was chosen at ''Trap Muzik's'' third single. The single was his second successful single from the album. It reached #30 in the U.S., #15 on the U.S. R&B chart, and #11 on the Rap Charts.
T.I. released his last single from ''Trap Muzik'', "Lets Get Away" with [[Jazze Pha]]. It reached #35 in the U.S. #17 on U.S. R&B chart, and #10 in Rap. T.I. won for ''Best Street Anthem'' for "Rubberband Man" at the 2004 [[Vibe Magazine|Vibe Awards]].
=== Urban Legend ===
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T.I. released his third album ''[[Urban Legend (album)|Urban Legend]]'' in late 2004. ''Urban Legend'' instantly generated crossover success with the hit single "[[Bring Em Out (T.I. song)|Bring 'Em Out]]". He used a sample from [[Jay-Z]]'s "What More Can I Say" from ''[[The Black Album (Jay-Z album)|The Black Album]]'' to create the hook. "[[Bring Em Out (T.I. song)|Bring 'Em Out]]" is used to introduce the starting lineup for the [[Miami Heat]]. The album featured production from [[Ruff Ryders]]'s producer [[Swizz Beatz]]. The album featured [[Trick Daddy]], [[Nelly]], [[Lil' Jon]], [[The B.G.|B.G.]], [[Mannie Fresh]] of the [[Big Tymers]], [[Daz Dillinger]], [[Lil' Wayne]], [[Pharrell]] of [[The Neptunes]], [[P$C]] and [[Lil' Kim]]. The album was certified platinum by selling 1.3 million copies. The [[chopped and screwed]] version of this album exists.
At the beginning of 2005, T.I. enjoyed success alongside [[Lil' Wayne]] on the [[Destiny's Child]] song "[[Soldier (song)|Soldier]]", which proved to be a worldwide smash hit.
T.I. released his second single "U Don't Know Me". The single appeared on U.S. charts, Rap charts, U.S. R&B charts, and Pop 100 charts. It was rumored that song was directed to former rivalry [[Ludacris]] due to the fact that he had a song called "Get Back" where he says; ''"Get Back..Get Back..you don't know me like that"'' which was released around the same time the single was released. He won for ''Best Street Anthem'' for "U Don't Know Me" at the 2005 [[Vibe Magazine|Vibe Awards]].
His 3rd single "A.S.A.P". It reached #75 on the U.S. charts, #18 on the U.S. R&B charts, #14 on the Rap charts, and #35 on the U.K. singles chart. T.I. created a video for "ASAP"/"Motivation". However, "Motivation" appeared on the U.S. R&B singles chart, but not on the other charts like "A.S.A.P".
"Get Loose" feat. [[Nelly]] was released as a song that started to get radio play, it was produced by [[Jazze Pha]]. It was rumored to have a video made, but it didn't happened. It reached #70 on Billboard's R&B charts.
In 2006, T.I. received two [[Grammy Award]] nominations: [[Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration|Best Song Collaboration]] ("Soldier" w/ Destiny's Child & Lil Wayne) and [[Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance|Best Solo Performance]] for "U Don't Know Me" at The [[Grammy Awards of 2006|48th Annual Grammy Awards]].
=== King ===
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His fourth album, ''[[King (T.I. album)|King]]'' debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart on [[April 4]], [[2006]], selling 522,000 copies in its first week. It became [[Atlantic Records]]' best-selling album in 15 years.<ref name"">{{cite web
}}</ref> T.I. released his [[promo-single]]s "[[Front Back]]" and "Ride With Me" before the album's release date. The singles had small attention, but it helped promote the album and his debut movie ''[[ATL (film)|ATL]]''. The album also included other singles, [[What You Know]], [[Why You Wanna]], [[Live In The Sky]], and [[Top Back (Remix)|Top Back]]. ''KING'' has earned numerous awards and nominations including a [[Grammy]] nomination for [[Best Rap Album]]. Even though [[Jay-Z]] surpassed him in his first week album sales, ''KING'' is still considered to be the best-selling hip hop/rap album of 2006.
In Spring of 2006, T.I. released "[[What You Know]]". The song has also been used in promotion of the film [[ATL (film)|ATL]], in which T.I. stars. It has garnered a 5-star rating from [[Pitchfork Media]]. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and it also topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart and Rap Charts. It utilizes a sample of [[Roberta Flack]]'s version of [[The Impressions]]'s "Gone Away" and [[Hey Joe]]. It was rumored that T.I. was taking shots at [[Lil Flip]] on the song.
[[What You Know]] won for "[[Best Rap Solo Performance]]" and was nominated for "[[Grammy Award for Best Rap Song|Best Rap Song]]" at the [[49th Annual Grammy Awards]].
[[Pitchfork Media]] also ranked What You Know as the 3rd best song of 2006 and his collaboration with Justin Timberlake in the song "My Love" was also ranked at number one on the same list. [[VIBE]] recently named T.I.'s "What You Know" as the Top Song of 2006. Rolling Stone ranked the single as number four.
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"[[Why You Wanna]]" was released as the next single. The chorus samples [[Q-Tip (rapper)|Q-Tip]]'s vocals from ''[[Got 'Til It's Gone]]'' with [[Janet Jackson]] and also contained samples a slowed-down keyboard chord from [[Crystal Waters]]' ''"[[Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)]]".'' The song reached #29 in the U.S., #43 on the [[Switzerland|SWI]] charts, #49 on the [[Australian Recording Industry Association|AUS]] charts, #17 on the Ireland charts, #22 on the [[U.K.]] singles charts, and #30 on Tokio's Hot 100 making the single successful worldwide. The video paid a tribute to T.I.'s deceased friend Phil, who was killed in Cincinnati. He appeared in the video as well.
"[[Live In The Sky]]" featuring [[Jamie Foxx]] had enough airplay but it didn't reach the U.S. charts, but it has reached on U.S. R&B charts. T.I. released the song to pay tribute to deceased friends, he revealed that he shedded tears while writing this song.
T.I. collaborated with [[Justin Timberlake]] for [[My Love (Justin Timberlake song)|My Love]] which proved to be a worldwide hit. It earned him a Grammy Award for [[Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration|Best Collaboration]] for "My Love" with [[Justin Timberlake]] at the [[49th Annual Grammy Awards]].
T.I. released his last single off ''KING'', ''Top Back''. T.I. decided to add [[Young Dro]], [[Young Jeezy]], [[B.G. (rapper)|B.G.]], and [[Big Kuntry]] to create a remix. This version was released from [[Grand Hustle Presents: In Da Streetz Volume 4]]. Billboard doesn't have [[Top Back (Remix)|Top Back Remix]] listed, but ''Top Back'' instead. The remixed version and the portion of the video can be also heard and seen on [[Chevrolet]]'s [[Impala]] commercial. He appeared in [[Chevrolet]]'s [[Super Bowl XLI]] commercial performing his single ''Top Back remix'' with the same scene from the video.
He appeared in a [[Chevrolet]] commercial, where he and [[Dale Earnhardt, Jr.]] traded cars (T.I. was driving the #8 race car on the track very slowly, while Earnhardt was driving the black Chevy on the highway very fast).
=== T.I. vs. T.I.P. ===
T.I. is currently in the studio working on his 5th album [[T.I. vs. T.I.P.]] which is set to be released on [[July 3rd]] (U.S.). T.I. explained the album’s title, saying, "It’s basically a battle within myself. There’s not nobody out there doing what I do as well as I do it, so I see myself as worthy competition for myself." The first (street) single off the album will be "[[Big Shit Poppin']]" which is produced by [[Mannie Fresh]] and co-produced by T.I.. The single was released to radio stations on [[April 17]].
==Acting career==
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In the Spring of 2006, T.I. starred in his first film, [[ATL (film)|ATL]]. The other cast members included [[Lauren London]], [[Big Boi|Andre Patton]], [[Evan Ross]], [[Mykelti Williamson]], [[Jason Weaver]], and [[Keith David]]. The movie was written by Tina Gordon Chism and [[Antwone Fisher]], produced by Timothy M. Bourne, [[Tionne Watkins]], and [[Will Smith]], and directed by [[Chris Robinson (director)|Christopher Robinson]]. T.I. played the character Rashad Swann, an orphaned 17-year-old senior in high school. He grew up on the southside of [[Atlanta]]. He lives with his uncle and has a younger brother named Ant. In its opening weekend, the film grossed a total of $11.5 million, ranking third in the United States box office, and went on to gross $21.2 million nationwide.<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=atl.htm "ATL Box Office"]</ref>
T.I. will be starring in an upcoming [[Ridley Scott]] film called [[American Gangster]], a gangster flim with [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-winners [[Denzel Washington]] and [[Russell Crowe]], and fellow rappers [[Common (rapper)|Common]] & [[RZA]] about a police detective (Crowe) pursuing a [[Harlem]] drug lord (Washington) during the 1970s. This movie is based on the life of [[Frank Lucas (criminal)|Frank Lucas]], which T.I. will be starring as his nephew. T.I. stated working with the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-winners is an honor and he feels like he's going to school and learning the best from them.<ref>[http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1538156/story.jhtml "T.I. To Star With Oscar Favorites Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe"]</ref> The film has been completed.
T.I. and his partner Jason Geter have sold a script entitled "For Sale" to New Line Cinema.
Launching the film division of Tip and Geter's Grand Hustle Entertainment, the script takes place in an Atlanta used-car lot. Reports say T.I. may play one of the salesmen. Toby Emmerich of New Line apparently secured the deal. Emmerich, Sam Brown and Jeff Katz will supervise the film on behalf of New Line.
He's working on an as-yet-untitled comedy about "two guys who work at the airport, like TSA. They stumble upon a terrorist attack in progress, nobody believes them, so they gotta save the day." Finally, he's in talks regarding what he calls a "new White Men Can't Jump. We have our eye on [[Justin Timberlake|Justin]] [for the part]. Regarding the onslaught of comedies, he explained, "It's just so predictable for me to do a little shoot-em-up-bang-bang movie. I can do it, and I'll be good at it, but it's predictable.
T.I. plans to illustrate the dark psychodrama with a direct-to-DVD companion film. (Chris Robinson, who directed him in ATL last year, is in talks to helm the movie.)
T.I. recently appeared on Billboard's Magazine cover for May 2007. According to his interview, he's in talks for a network sitcom, a Viacom reality show, and a T.V. program through [[Tracey Edmonds]]' Edmonds Entertainment. The nexus for all these projects are Grand Hustle, the record label him and his business parter Jason Geter have expanded into a film and production company.
==Producing==
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T.I. has been working on other peoples' records. On the music front, he has been co-executive producing [[B.G. (rapper)|B.G.]]'s upcoming album. He's been juicing up his producer game, making beats for artists like [[Mariah Carey]], [[Cassidy (rapper)|Cassidy]], [[Rick Ross (rapper)|Rick Ross]], [[Yung Joc]], [[Young Dro]], and himself.<ref>[http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2007/04/tip_goes_in/ "Tip Goes In"]</ref> [[Wyclef Jean]] asked T.I. to co-executive produce his upcoming album. He also executive produced the [[Hustle & Flow (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to the film ''[[Hustle & Flow]]'' and released the collection through his record label. <ref>[http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=112209 "Hustle & Flow" Earns Oscar for Original Song for "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp"]</ref> He also did the same for the debut album of his group [[P$C]], ''[[T.I. Presents The P$C: 25 To Life]]'', the Grand Hustle compilation ''[[Grand Hustle Presents: In Da Streetz Volume 4]]'', and his own albums.
==Disputes==
== History ==
In 2004, T.I. received an early release from incarceration, and returned to music with some disparaging words for rival rappers [[Lil' Flip]] and [[Ludacris]].
The software was originally written for [[Wikipedia]] by the [[Germany|German]] [[University of Cologne]] student and developer Magnus Manske. Wikipedia had previously used a small wiki engine called [[UseModWiki]] written in [[Perl]]. On [[January 25]] [[2002]], Wikipedia was switched to Manske's software to offer more functionality and build upon a scalable infrastructure (i.e. a [[MySQL]] database). However, the first implementation resulted in significant performance issues, and the software was substantially rewritten by Lee Daniel Crocker. Later on, Brion Vibber would take up the role of release manager and most active developer.{{Fact|date=March 2007}}
===Ludacris===
Since the release of the first version of Manske's script, the software had been given multiple nicknames representing the state of development—"the PHP script", "phase II", "phase III", "the new codebase"—but no product name. After the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] was announced on [[June 20]] [[2003]], the name "MediaWiki" was coined by Wikipedia contributor Daniel Mayer as a play on "Wikimedia," <ref>{{cite web|url=http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-July/010966.html|last=Mayer|first=Daniel|accessdate =|title=Phase IV, Wikibooks.org/.com and WikimediaFoundation.org/.com (was Wikis and uniformity)|work=Wikipedia-L mailing list archives}}</ref> and the name was gradually phased in beginning in August 2003. The name has frequently caused confusion due to its intentional similarity to the "Wikimedia" name (which itself is similar to "Wikipedia"). Nevertheless, "MediaWiki" has become a recognizable brand, with a [[Google]] search yielding over 165 million results on the name in April [[As of 2007|2007]].
T.I. called out [[Ludacris]] over an old disagreement their crews had with one another. Ludacris made a [[music video]] in which a person in a shirt that resembled a ''Trap Muzik'' shirt was seen being beaten, and, although Ludacris stated in an interview on MTV.com that the person in the video was wearing a Trap Records shirt, a label owned by DTP member Titti Boi, the feud progressed. T.I. later recorded a song, 'Stomp', with [[G-Unit]] rapper [[Young Buck]] originally featuring [[Lil Jon]]. T.I.'s verse seemed like an insult to Ludacris and Young Buck did not want to be a part of it. Young Buck told Ludacris about this and Ludacris decided to get on the same song and insult T.I.
T.I.'s verse was omitted from the original track listing and replaced with [[The Game (rapper)|The Game]], though the version of the song with T.I.'s verse is still available on many file-sharing networks.
The product logo was created by Erik Moeller using a flower photograph taken by [[Florence Nibart-Devouard]], and was originally submitted to an international logo contest for a new Wikipedia logo held in summer 2003.<ref name="Logo contest">{{cite web | title = International logo contest/results| url = http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_logo_contest/Results&oldid=509000 | author = Wikimedia contributors | work = Meta-wiki | publisher = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] | date = [[2007-01-10]] | accessdate = 2007-03-14}}</ref> The logo came in third place, and was chosen to represent MediaWiki instead of Wikipedia, with the second place logo used for the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] and the first place logo for Wikipedia itself.<ref name="Meta logo history">{{cite web | author = Wikimedia contributors | title = Historical/Logo history | url = http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Historical/Logo_history&oldid=513925 | publisher = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] | date = [[2007-01-17]] | accessdate = 2007-03-14 | work = Meta-wiki}}</ref>
T.I. referenced this in his song "I'm Talkin' to You" on ''King'': <blockquote>"Had it out with 'Cris but he still my nigga / Sat down, civilized, talked about it like niggas." </blockquote> This served to eliminate Ludacris as a target of the song, which many believe to be directed toward [[Rick Ross (rapper)|Rick Ross]]. T.I. revealed that he wasn't talking about anyone, he just made the record to see whoever has a problem with him so they can speak out. [[Ludacris]] and T.I. squashed their beef. They been seen greeting each other on "MTV My Block: Atlanta" and both won two Grammys each.
=== Release history ===
===Lil Flip===
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He was also engaged in a high-profile battle with Houston rapper [[Lil Flip]], who he heard insulted him on stage at a concert in Atlanta while he was incarcerated. T.I. believed that Flip mocked his claim as the "King of the South". Apparently, T.I. only learned of the alleged insult through a friend of T.I.'s girlfriend. T.I. says he heard from several sources, and even has a tape, of Flip insulting him at a few Atlanta concerts. Flip's alleged treason supposedly happened when T.I. was locked away in jail in spring. Lil Flip is said to have asked different audiences who the king of the South was before telling the crowd to inform hometown hero T.I. that "the game was over." T.I. says he heard this was followed by the Houston rapper performing "Game Over."
The members of his clique were holding up old publicity shots of Lil' Flip dressed in a leprechaun outfit. One picture has Flip holding a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal, the other one has Flipper in a fighting stance. Both flicks have been blown up to poster-size and copied several times.
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The two released numerous insults on mixtapes and on the radio. [[UGK]]'s own [[Pimp C]] mentioned in his song "Knocking Doors Down" that [[Lil Flip]] and T.I. are acting like "little boys" and they needed to squash their beef.
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}}</ref> T.I. and [[Lil Flip]] had an altercation at [[Lil Flip]]'s hometown [[Cloverland, Houston, Texas|Cloverland]]. It has been said that T.I. went there to create a DVD exposing [[Lil Flip]] to be a fraud. The same day T.I. went on a [[Houston]] radio station talking about the altercation. He revealed that he had the tape and he was going to release it with an upcoming mixtape, but that didn't happened due to the fact that [[J. Prince]] stopped him for distributing the tape. It is unknown that T.I. still has the tape or not. The feud was squashed by Rap-A-Lot's J. Prince after having them to sit down and squash their beef behind closed doors. The feud was documented by the [[Houston Press]].<ref name"">{{cite web
T.I. released a mixtape titled "Down With the King" featuring several tracks insulting Flip directly. Including a track titled 99 Problems Freestyle. The entire song is devoted to making fun of Flip and dissing him. The chorus of the track is even "I got 99 problems, Lil' Flip ain't one." There was a phone-call skit with legendary [[Houston]] rapper [[Scarface (rapper)|Scarface]] claiming he doesn't know Lil Flip and hasn't seen him around in [[Cloverland, Houston, Texas|Cloverland]], he revealed that he didn't want to be "The King of the South" and T.I. can have the title.
MediaWiki provides a rich core feature set and a mechanism to attach [[extension (computing)|extensions]] to provide additional functionality. Due to the strong emphasis on multilinguality in the Wikimedia projects, [[internationalization]] has received significant attention by developers. The user interface has been fully or partially translated into more than 70 languages, and can be further customized by site administrators (the entire interface is editable through the wiki). Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of [[cache|caching]] and [[database replication]] has also been a major concern for developers. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki.
On T.I.'s album ''[[King (T.I. album)|King]]'', there are several tracks which have been disputed by the hip hop community to be shots at Lil Flip ("What You Know", "You Know Who" and "I'm Talkin to You"). In an interview with a popular online hip hop website on [[March 24]], [[2006]], T.I. was quoted as saying he and Lil Flip have no beef. This is somewhat contradictory to the events that occurred during Young Dro's video "Shoulder Lean". As Young Dro delivers the line "Lucky Charm Diamonds, but nah, I ain't Flip". T.I. is seen making a laughing gesture towards the video camera. The beef seems to be squashed as Flip said in a recent freestyle:
=== Links ===
[[Image:mediawiki-opensuse.png|thumb|300px|Some companies use MediaWiki as a [[content management system]]. [[Novell]] has deployed it for several of its product websites, including [[openSUSE]].]]
<blockquote>"How much money you got, nigga, what's in your vault/talk the talk, walk the walk, Rest in Peace to Big Hawk/ and Fat Pat/got a blue car and a black 'lac/used to wear throwbacks, but now that's played out/put my name in a verse, you get yo ass laid out/so don't talk about Flip no mo/and no I ain't got beef with Tip no mo".</blockquote>
One of the earliest differences between MediaWiki (and its predecessor, UseModWiki) and other wiki engines was the use of "[[free link]]s" instead of [[CamelCase]]. Where, in a typical wiki, text like "WorldWideWeb" would have to be typed to create a link to a page about the [[World Wide Web]], links in MediaWiki are created by surrounding words with double square brackets, and any spaces between them are left intact, e.g. <nowiki>[[World Wide Web]]</nowiki>. This change was logical for the purpose of creating an encyclopedia, where accuracy in titles is very important.
==Community work==
=== Namespaces ===
T.I. has stepped up his community involvement as well, taking the lead on several initiatives to help the victims devastated by [[Hurricane Katrina]], including personally donating $50,000 to the relief effort while leading an on-air [[Labor Day]] pledge drive on Atlanta's [[WVEE-FM|V-103 FM]] that raised over $263,000 for [[Mississippi]] rapper [[David Banner]]'s "Heal the Hood" Foundation. He also partnered with David Banner and [[Atlanta]] newcomer [[Young Jeezy]] for a two-day food and clothing drive at Atlanta's Club Vision and co-headlined a massive benefit concert on [[September 17]], sharing the bill with heavyweights such as [[Nelly]], [[OutKast]]'s [[Big Boi]], and David Banner - with 100 percent of the proceeds going to "Heal the Hood".
MediaWiki provides many features beyond hyperlinks for structuring content. One of the earliest features is ''[[namespace]]s''. One problem for Wikipedia had long been the separation of encyclopedic content from discussions surrounding it, as well as personal pages about encyclopedia editors. Namespaces are prefixes before a page title (like "User:" or "Talk:") which allow a page to exist under multiple names, but serving different purposes depending on their prefix. For instance, a page "<nowiki>[[The Terminator]]</nowiki>" could describe [[The Terminator|the 1984 movie]] starring [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], while a page "<nowiki>[[User:The Terminator]]</nowiki>" could be a profile describing a user who chooses this name as a pseudonym. More commonly, each page has an associated "Talk:" page which can be used to discuss its contents.
In addition to his Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, T.I. worked with troubled youths at Paulding Detention Center in Atlanta, provided scholarships for single parent families at Boys and Girls Clubs, and headlined Boost Mobile's RockCorps concert at New York's [[Radio City Music Hall]], which featured such performers as [[Fat Joe]], [[Slim Thug]], and [[Kanye West]], and was held exclusively for community service volunteers. In June 2005, The [[Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]] Foundation, named for the deceased member of multi-platinum female group [[TLC (music)|TLC]], and Atlanta's [[WVEE-FM|V-103]] honored T.I. with the 2005 [[Lisa Lopes]] Award for groundbreaking achievements in music and community service which was court ordered. With this steady list of growing accomplishments T.I. is being recognized as the "[[Jay-Z]] of the South." according to Pharrell Williams of multi-platinum production team The Neptunes.<ref name"">{{cite web
Namespaces can be viewed as [[file folder|folders]] which separate different basic types of information or functionality. While new namespaces can be added, the number of namespaces in a wiki is typically relatively low.
T.I. has joined forces again with the [[Make-A-Wish]] foundation to grant an [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] teen's wish. He joined labelmate/protege' [[Young Dro]] on stage for a taping at The Showtime At The Apollo to meet 15 year old Sara Labare on [[October 15]] at the [[Apollo Theatre]]. Labare, who suffers from an [[autoimmune disorder]], received a [[digital camera]],an autographed poster, CDs, and sat in the front row during T.I.'s performance. T.I. has granted a total of 3 wishes.
=== Subpages ===
In addition to namespaces, pages can be structured using ''subpages''. This simple feature provides automatic [[backlink]]s from a page of the pattern <nowiki>[[Page title/Subpage title]]</nowiki> to the component before the slash (in this case, "Page title").
T.I. kept a fan smiling when he showed up at 11-year-old Ajmal Acklin's, who suffers from acute lymblastic leukemia with Christmas gifts. [[WHTA-FM|Hot-107.9]] announcer Griff asked the 11 year old does he like T.I. and Acklin responded "Yes" and his favorite song was "[[What You Know]]". Griff told him that T.I. was here and the 11-year-old's eyes lit up. T.I. walked in and said: ''"How you doing, I just wanted to come see how you're doing ... I heard the church bought you a [[PlayStation 3]], so I got you some games".'' One by one, each visitor offered their prayers and well wishes, ending with A-Team intern Ree Williams doing a stirring a capella version of the gospel tune "Even Me". Before she hit the last note Ajmal's mom ducked into the kitchen, tears in her eyes.
=== Categories ===
Finally, MediaWiki supports user-created ''categories''. These are similar to [[Tag (metadata)|tags]] used in many web applications, but hierarchical and descriptive. In large wikis like [[Wikipedia]], very complex hierarchies have grown using this system without any central planning.<ref>Compare Erik Zachte's [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/CategoryOverviewIndex.htm category trees] generated from Wikipedia category information.</ref>
T.I.'s King Foundation is also scheduled to donate 10,000 bikes to the [[Boys & Girls Club]] in [[New Orleans]].
=== Editable interface ===
[[Image:mediawiki-edit.png|thumb|300px|Editing interface of MediaWiki 1.7 as rendered in [[Firefox]], showing the edit toolbar and some examples of wiki syntax.]]
T.I.'s night club, Club Crucial, where he and V-103 announcer Greg Street will give away 200 bicycles to neighborhood children in the Boys & Girls Club.<ref name"">{{cite web
The entire MediaWiki user interface can be edited through the wiki itself by users with the necessary permissions (typically so-called "administrators"). This is done through a special namespace with the prefix "MediaWiki:", where each page title identifies a particular user interface message. The "MediaWiki:" namespace was also originally used for creating custom text blocks that could then be dynamically loaded into other pages using a special syntax. This content was later moved into its own namespace, "Template:".
Templates are text blocks which can be dynamically loaded inside another page whenever that page is requested.
T.I. was dating Tameka "Tiny" Cottle from the 90's group [[Xscape (band)|Xscape]]. They have a son together named Clifford aka 'King' and were expecting a daughter (Llayah Amour) to be born in June who died at [[stillbirth]] late night on [[March 21]], [[2007]]. Tiny also has another daughter Zonnique that T.I. claims. He has 3 other children, their names are Messiah Harris (son), Domani Harris (son), and Deyjah Harris (daughter). T.I. and Tiny ended their longterm relationship on [[March 18]], [[2007]] .<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1554945/20070319/t_i_.jhtml "T.I. MTV Article"] </ref> The couple reconciled.
The template "tag" is simply a special link in double [[curly bracket]]s (for example "<nowiki>{{disputed}}</nowiki>") which calls the template (in this case located at [[Template:Disputed]]) to load where the tag is.
Templates support [[parameter]]s, so that parts of the text can be substituted for each specific use case.
A related method, called template ''substitution'' (called by adding <code>subst:</code> at the beginning of a template tag) inserts
(like a [[copy and paste]] operation) the contents of the template into the target page, instead of loading the template contents dynamically whenever the page is loaded. This limits the consistency of using templates, but may be useful in certain cases, and is (perhaps) less demanding on the [[server]].
===Criminal ===
Templates have found many different uses, such as:
In early 2004, T.I. was behind bars in Cobb County, [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], for violating probation. The probation stems from a November 1997 [[arrest]] and subsequent [[conviction]] for distribution of [[cocaine]], [[manufacturing]] and [[Distribution (business)|distributing]] a [[controlled substance]], and giving authorities a [[false name]], according to a sheriff's department spokesperson.
* Identifying problems with a Wikipedia article by putting a template in the article. This template will then output a graphical box stating that the article is disputed, and also categorize it so that articles of this nature can be located.
* Creating complex table layouts which are used consistently across multiple pages, and where only the content of the tables gets inserted using template parameters.
* Sending users standard messages when they are blocked from editing, when their behavior is considered inappropriate, and so on.
He served a [[Sentence (law)|sentence]] of unknown length and was released early on [[probation]]. It is not clear what he did to [[violate]] the terms of his release, but it is the second time he's been accused of doing so. A county [[judge]] could revoke the terms of his probation and reinstate his original sentence.
=== Media content ===
[[Image:mediawiki-gallery.png|thumb|300px|Images can be arranged in galleries, a feature that is used extensively for Wikimedia's media archive, [[Wikimedia Commons]].]]
As the name ''MediaWiki'' suggests, the software has become ever more powerful at dealing with a wide variety of uploaded media files. Its richest functionality is in the area of images, where image galleries and thumbnails can be generated with relative ease if the software is set up correctly. There is also support for [[Exif]] [[metadata]]. The use of MediaWiki to operate the [[Wikimedia Commons]], one of the largest [[free content]] media archives, has driven the need for further functionality in this area.
More trouble awaits T.I. in neighboring Fulton County. Two arrest warrants were issued there in March — one for [[possession]] of a [[firearm]] and one for possession of [[ecstasy]]. Now that he's in custody, T.I. will likely be extradited to face those charges after his case is handled in Cobb County, according to a Fulton County sheriff's department spokesperson.<ref name"">{{cite web
MediaWiki currently provides no native [[WYSIWYG]] support, though it does come with a graphical toolbar for simplifying the process of learning the wiki syntax. It also has a simple interface to allow the transparent use of external editors for uploaded files and wiki pages.
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T.I. was sentenced to three years in [[prison]] for violating the terms of his [[probation]]. After serving a minimum of one year, T.I. can apply for a work-release program, according to the county clerk's office in [[Cobb County]], Georgia. An arrest warrant for T.I. was issued on [[December 29]], ordering a revocation of his probation. He turned himself in to county officials on [[March 30]] and had been in custody ever since. His lawyers appeared in Cobb County Superior Court Wednesday and signed a consent order with [[prosecutors]] that essentially stipulated T.I. should be [[sentence (law)|sentenced]] immediately, thus avoiding the need for a formal [[hearing]].
=== Sections ===
To make editing long pages such as comprehensive Wikipedia articles easier, MediaWiki supports editing only a small subsection of a page (as identified by its header).
T.I. was on probation stemming from a 1998 [[conviction]] for violating a state controlled substances act and for giving false information. After being released on [[probation]], he earned a litany of probation violations in several counties around Georgia for offenses ranging from possession of a [[firearm]] to possession of [[marijuana]].<ref name"">{{cite web
MediaWiki also supports rich content generated through specialized syntax. For example, the software comes with support for rendering mathematical formulas using [[LaTeX]] and a special parser written in [[OCaml]]. Similar functionality for other content, ranging from graphical timelines over mathematical [[plotting]] and [[musical score]]s to [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]], is available in the form of extensions.
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}}</ref>.
In 2006, after appearing in an Atlanta court on (May 10) and having charges that he threatened a man outside a strip club last year dropped for lack of evidence, T.I. was arrested on an outstanding probation violation warrant from Florida. The warrant claims that T.I. did not complete the required number of community service hours he was sentenced for a 2003 assault of a female sheriff deputy at University Mall in Tampa. T.I. was detained by several mall Security Guards at the time of the incident, among them, Jason Phillips(founder of Certified Protective Services), Larry Warner (founder of Tactical Response Services), and Arturo Ortiz, now a security manager in Florida. According to WBS-TV Atlanta, the rapper’s attorney has said that the problem was nothing more than a “technical matter” between [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and [[Florida]]. The confusion arose because T.I. was also sentenced to community service in Georgia for driving with a suspended license, for which he did complete 75 hours of community service in his home state. The rapper was released on bail shortly after being arrested, and was expected to surrender to Florida state authorities next week to resolve the matter.<ref name"">{{cite web
=== Customisable interface ===
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[[Image:Popup-preview.png|thumb|300px|Users can configure custom JavaScript that is executed on every pageview. This has led to JavaScript tools that users can "install". The "navigation popup" tool shown here displays a small preview of an article when hovering over a link title.]]
| title ="T.I. Briefly Jailed for Probation Violation"
If the feature is enabled, users can also customize their stylesheets and configure client-side [[JavaScript]] to be executed with every pageview. On Wikipedia, this has led to a large number of additional tools and helpers developed through the wiki and shared among users. For instance, ''Lupin's navigation popups'' is a custom JavaScript tool that shows previews of articles when the user hovers over links, and also provides shortcuts for common maintenance tasks.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups| title = Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups | accessdate = | author = "Lupin"}}</ref> Another example is ''wikEd'', a full-featured MediaWiki-integrated text editor that provides syntax highlighting and search and replace functions. <ref>{{cite web| url = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd| title = wikEd | accessdate = | author = "Cacycle"}}</ref>
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=== Death of T.I.'s friend and assistant ===
=== Access and groups ===
In the early hours of [[May 4]], [[2006]], T.I. and his entourage were involved in a gunfight after leaving a concert after-party at the Club Ritz, a nightclub in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]]<ref name"">{{cite web
While MediaWiki comes with a basic set of features related to restricting access and defining user groups, page access control does not tend to be given high priority in development. For instance, it is not possible to define the access permissions to pages on a per-namespace basis. Here, wikis like [[TWiki]] and [[MoinMoin]] provide more power by supporting advanced security mechanisms like [[Access Control List]]s.
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}}</ref> that has a history of problems with the law. Four members of T.I.'s entourage were shot in the altercation. T.I.'s personal assistant Philant Johnson was killed and Janice Gillespie was seriously wounded by the gunfire.<ref name"">{{cite web
| title ="T.I.'s Personal Assistant Killed in Cincinnati Shootout"
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}}</ref> It is believed that the altercation began at the Ritz when members of T.I.'s entourage threw money into the crowd, angering male audience members.
According to the [[Cincinnati Enquirer]], the feud began at the city's Club Ritz during an after-party for the Atlanta rapper and [[Yung Joc]] -- who performed earlier that evening at the club [[Bogart's]] -- and moved outside, where shots were fired into two vans transporting T.I.'s crew just after three o'clock.
"[The money] was supposed to be for the ladies", one witness said. "But it was hitting guys in the face, and they were like, 'We had money before, so why are you throwing money at us?'"
The MediaWiki codebase contains various "hooks" where additional code can be attached. This allows programmers to write extensions without modifying the core or having to submit their code for review. Installing an extension typically consists of adding a line to the configuration file, though in some cases additional changes such as database updates are required.
When the situation grew tense, T.I. reportedly told his group to head out. A witness outside told the Enquirer that one shot -- believed to be unrelated to the ensuing gun battle -- was fired in the parking lot and at least four people followed the vans in a large vehicle.
Many of the available extensions are simple scripts to allow embedding content such as [[Adobe Flash]] files or HTML forms. Others add complex new behavior to the wiki syntax, such as [[Semantic MediaWiki]] which provides the ability to add structured and searchable relations and attributes to wiki pages (cf. [[semantic web]]). The Wikimedia Foundation operates a [[Subversion (software)|Subversion]] server where many extensions are hosted, and a directory of them can be found on the MediaWiki website.<ref>see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Contents</ref>
==Discography==
== Performance ==
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Because it is used to run one of the highest traffic sites on the World Wide Web, [[Wikipedia]], MediaWiki performance and [[scalability]] have been highly optimized. MediaWiki supports [[Squid cache]]s, [[load balancing (computing)|load balanced]] database replication, client-side caching, [[memcached]] or table-based caching for frequently accessed processing or query results, a simple static file cache, feature-reduced operation, revision compression, and a job queue for database operations.
{{further|[[T.I. discography]]}}
=== Albums===
* 2001: ''[[I'm Serious]]''
* 2003: ''[[Trap Muzik]]''
* 2004: ''[[Urban Legend]]''
* 2006: ''[[King (T.I. album)|King]]''
* 2007: ''[[T.I. vs. T.I.P.]]''
===Solo singles===
MediaWiki may be overdimensioned for small-scale usage, where its large feature set and use of a database backend take a performance toll{{Fact|date=April 2007}}. On the other hand, the software is suitable for the operation of large scale [[wiki farm]]s, such as the Wikimedia project and language family. However, MediaWiki comes with no built-in functionality to manage such installations. <br clear="all"/>
* 2003: "Neva Scared" <small>([[BoneCrusher]] featuring T.I. & [[Killer Mike]])</small>
Aside from the aforementioned lack of WYSIWYG features, user documentation is found online only (there is no printed manual) and is not proprietary (dozens of authors have contributed to the documentation). The installation and usage of the Mediawiki software is not intuitive for inexperienced computer users (compared to purpose made software such as [[FrontPage]] for example).
* 2004: "[[Soldier]]" <small>([[Destiny's Child]] featuring T.I. & [[Lil Wayne]])</small>
* 2005: "Do Ya Thang" <small>(with [[P$C]], featuring [[Young Dro]])</small>
==Filmography==
{{reflist}}
'''Television'''
== See also ==
*[[2005]]: [[The O.C.]]...Himself
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*[[2005]]: [[Punk'd]]...Himself
'''Films'''
* [[Comparison of wiki software]]
*[[2008 in film|2008]]: [[Ballers]]...TBA
* [[GetWiki]]: a [[Fork (software development)|fork]].
*[[2007 in film|2007]]: Untitled...TBA
* [[IpbWiki|IpbWiki - Integration of Invision Power Board with MediaWiki]]
*[[2007 in film|2007]]: For Sale...TBA
* [[List of content management systems]]
*[[2007 in film|2007]]: [[American Gangster]]...Frank Lucas' Nephew
* [[List of wiki software]]
*[[2006 in film|2006]]: [[ATL (film)|ATL]]...Rashad Swann
==Awards and nominations==
{{further|[[List of T.I. awards and nominations]]}}
==Endorsements==
*[[Sean John]] clothing
*[[Reebok]]
*[[T-Mobile]] & [[Verizon]] - "T.I. Street Racing", a new mobile phone video game
*[[Def Jam: Icon]] video game
*[[Chevrolet]]
*AKOO Clothing - T.I.'s upcoming clothing line
*Dapper Magazine - T.I.'s magazine
==See also==
* [[List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart]]
* [[List of number-one R&B hits (United States)]]
* [[List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)]]
* [[List of number-one hits (United States)]]
* [[List of celebrities who have been Punk'd on Seasons 1 to 5]]
==Notes and references==
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*[http://www.trapmuzik.com/ Official Artist website]
*[http://www.atlanticrecords.com/ti Atlantic Records website]
*[http://www.grandhustle.com/ Official site of Grand Hustle Records]
*[http://www.king-ti.com/ Faniste King-TI]
*[http://www.rbm-online.net/ Updated Daily T.I. Fansite RBM-Online]
*[http://www.tip-online.net/ Updated Daily T.I. Fansite TIP-Online]
*{{MySpace|trapmuzik}}
*{{imdb name | id=1939267 | name=T.I.}}
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki official homepage], with [[mw:User hub|Hubs for users]], [[mw:Sysadmin hub| system administrators]] and [[mw:Developer hub| developers]].
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/ Download and project page] on [[SourceForge]]
* [[meta:MediaWiki|MediaWiki on the Meta-Wiki]], [[Wikimedia|Wikimedia's]] [[meta]] website.
The software was originally written for Wikipedia by the GermanUniversity of Cologne student and developer Magnus Manske. Wikipedia had previously used a small wiki engine called UseModWiki written in Perl. On January 252002, Wikipedia was switched to Manske's software to offer more functionality and build upon a scalable infrastructure (i.e. a MySQL database). However, the first implementation resulted in significant performance issues, and the software was substantially rewritten by Lee Daniel Crocker. Later on, Brion Vibber would take up the role of release manager and most active developer.Template:Fact
Since the release of the first version of Manske's script, the software had been given multiple nicknames representing the state of development—"the PHP script", "phase II", "phase III", "the new codebase"—but no product name. After the Wikimedia Foundation was announced on June 202003, the name "MediaWiki" was coined by Wikipedia contributor Daniel Mayer as a play on "Wikimedia," [3] and the name was gradually phased in beginning in August 2003. The name has frequently caused confusion due to its intentional similarity to the "Wikimedia" name (which itself is similar to "Wikipedia"). Nevertheless, "MediaWiki" has become a recognizable brand, with a Google search yielding over 165 million results on the name in April 2007.
The product logo was created by Erik Moeller using a flower photograph taken by Florence Nibart-Devouard, and was originally submitted to an international logo contest for a new Wikipedia logo held in summer 2003.[4] The logo came in third place, and was chosen to represent MediaWiki instead of Wikipedia, with the second place logo used for the Wikimedia Foundation and the first place logo for Wikipedia itself.[5]
MediaWiki provides a rich core feature set and a mechanism to attach extensions to provide additional functionality. Due to the strong emphasis on multilinguality in the Wikimedia projects, internationalization has received significant attention by developers. The user interface has been fully or partially translated into more than 70 languages, and can be further customized by site administrators (the entire interface is editable through the wiki). Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has also been a major concern for developers. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki.
One of the earliest differences between MediaWiki (and its predecessor, UseModWiki) and other wiki engines was the use of "free links" instead of CamelCase. Where, in a typical wiki, text like "WorldWideWeb" would have to be typed to create a link to a page about the World Wide Web, links in MediaWiki are created by surrounding words with double square brackets, and any spaces between them are left intact, e.g. [[World Wide Web]]. This change was logical for the purpose of creating an encyclopedia, where accuracy in titles is very important.
Namespaces
MediaWiki provides many features beyond hyperlinks for structuring content. One of the earliest features is namespaces. One problem for Wikipedia had long been the separation of encyclopedic content from discussions surrounding it, as well as personal pages about encyclopedia editors. Namespaces are prefixes before a page title (like "User:" or "Talk:") which allow a page to exist under multiple names, but serving different purposes depending on their prefix. For instance, a page "[[The Terminator]]" could describe the 1984 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, while a page "[[User:The Terminator]]" could be a profile describing a user who chooses this name as a pseudonym. More commonly, each page has an associated "Talk:" page which can be used to discuss its contents.
Namespaces can be viewed as folders which separate different basic types of information or functionality. While new namespaces can be added, the number of namespaces in a wiki is typically relatively low.
Subpages
In addition to namespaces, pages can be structured using subpages. This simple feature provides automatic backlinks from a page of the pattern [[Page title/Subpage title]] to the component before the slash (in this case, "Page title").
Categories
Finally, MediaWiki supports user-created categories. These are similar to tags used in many web applications, but hierarchical and descriptive. In large wikis like Wikipedia, very complex hierarchies have grown using this system without any central planning.[16]
Editable interface
Editing interface of MediaWiki 1.7 as rendered in Firefox, showing the edit toolbar and some examples of wiki syntax.
The entire MediaWiki user interface can be edited through the wiki itself by users with the necessary permissions (typically so-called "administrators"). This is done through a special namespace with the prefix "MediaWiki:", where each page title identifies a particular user interface message. The "MediaWiki:" namespace was also originally used for creating custom text blocks that could then be dynamically loaded into other pages using a special syntax. This content was later moved into its own namespace, "Template:".
Templates
Templates are text blocks which can be dynamically loaded inside another page whenever that page is requested.
The template "tag" is simply a special link in double curly brackets (for example "{{disputed}}") which calls the template (in this case located at Template:Disputed) to load where the tag is.
Templates support parameters, so that parts of the text can be substituted for each specific use case.
A related method, called template substitution (called by adding subst: at the beginning of a template tag) inserts
(like a copy and paste operation) the contents of the template into the target page, instead of loading the template contents dynamically whenever the page is loaded. This limits the consistency of using templates, but may be useful in certain cases, and is (perhaps) less demanding on the server.
Templates have found many different uses, such as:
Identifying problems with a Wikipedia article by putting a template in the article. This template will then output a graphical box stating that the article is disputed, and also categorize it so that articles of this nature can be located.
Creating complex table layouts which are used consistently across multiple pages, and where only the content of the tables gets inserted using template parameters.
Sending users standard messages when they are blocked from editing, when their behavior is considered inappropriate, and so on.
As the name MediaWiki suggests, the software has become ever more powerful at dealing with a wide variety of uploaded media files. Its richest functionality is in the area of images, where image galleries and thumbnails can be generated with relative ease if the software is set up correctly. There is also support for Exifmetadata. The use of MediaWiki to operate the Wikimedia Commons, one of the largest free content media archives, has driven the need for further functionality in this area.
WYSIWYG
MediaWiki currently provides no native WYSIWYG support, though it does come with a graphical toolbar for simplifying the process of learning the wiki syntax. It also has a simple interface to allow the transparent use of external editors for uploaded files and wiki pages.
Sections
To make editing long pages such as comprehensive Wikipedia articles easier, MediaWiki supports editing only a small subsection of a page (as identified by its header).
Rich content
MediaWiki also supports rich content generated through specialized syntax. For example, the software comes with support for rendering mathematical formulas using LaTeX and a special parser written in OCaml. Similar functionality for other content, ranging from graphical timelines over mathematical plotting and musical scores to Egyptian hieroglyphs, is available in the form of extensions.
Customisable interface
Users can configure custom JavaScript that is executed on every pageview. This has led to JavaScript tools that users can "install". The "navigation popup" tool shown here displays a small preview of an article when hovering over a link title.
If the feature is enabled, users can also customize their stylesheets and configure client-side JavaScript to be executed with every pageview. On Wikipedia, this has led to a large number of additional tools and helpers developed through the wiki and shared among users. For instance, Lupin's navigation popups is a custom JavaScript tool that shows previews of articles when the user hovers over links, and also provides shortcuts for common maintenance tasks.[17] Another example is wikEd, a full-featured MediaWiki-integrated text editor that provides syntax highlighting and search and replace functions. [18]
Access and groups
While MediaWiki comes with a basic set of features related to restricting access and defining user groups, page access control does not tend to be given high priority in development. For instance, it is not possible to define the access permissions to pages on a per-namespace basis. Here, wikis like TWiki and MoinMoin provide more power by supporting advanced security mechanisms like Access Control Lists.
The MediaWiki codebase contains various "hooks" where additional code can be attached. This allows programmers to write extensions without modifying the core or having to submit their code for review. Installing an extension typically consists of adding a line to the configuration file, though in some cases additional changes such as database updates are required.
Many of the available extensions are simple scripts to allow embedding content such as Adobe Flash files or HTML forms. Others add complex new behavior to the wiki syntax, such as Semantic MediaWiki which provides the ability to add structured and searchable relations and attributes to wiki pages (cf. semantic web). The Wikimedia Foundation operates a Subversion server where many extensions are hosted, and a directory of them can be found on the MediaWiki website.[19]
Performance
Because it is used to run one of the highest traffic sites on the World Wide Web, Wikipedia, MediaWiki performance and scalability have been highly optimized. MediaWiki supports Squid caches, load balanced database replication, client-side caching, memcached or table-based caching for frequently accessed processing or query results, a simple static file cache, feature-reduced operation, revision compression, and a job queue for database operations.
MediaWiki may be overdimensioned for small-scale usage, where its large feature set and use of a database backend take a performance tollTemplate:Fact. On the other hand, the software is suitable for the operation of large scale wiki farms, such as the Wikimedia project and language family. However, MediaWiki comes with no built-in functionality to manage such installations.
Limitations
Aside from the aforementioned lack of WYSIWYG features, user documentation is found online only (there is no printed manual) and is not proprietary (dozens of authors have contributed to the documentation). The installation and usage of the Mediawiki software is not intuitive for inexperienced computer users (compared to purpose made software such as FrontPage for example).
