sharmishtha gupta wrote :
I think i frame my question little bit confusing, let me modifie a bit I need to know that In what form is the password stored in MediaWiki, OR, What encryption do we need to use to store a password manually in MW user table?".
see : http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/mediawiki-l/2007-August/022784.html and the file includes/GlobalFunctions.php (function wfEncryptPassword( $userid, $password ) )