Whats MediaWiki - Learn more

Whats MediaWiki - Learn more
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#MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in #PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now also used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki. #UnhappyGhost

MediaWiki is a free and open source wiki software, used to power wiki websites such as Wikipedia, #Wiktionary and Commons, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others. It also runs thousands of other websites. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database. #Geeksch00l

The first version of the software was deployed to serve the needs of the #Wikipedia #encyclopedia in 2002. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki. The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second. Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has been a major concern for developers. #Geekschool

The software is highly customizable, with more than 700 configuration settings and more than 1,800 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed. On Wikipedia alone, more than 1000 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing.

It has also been deployed by some companies as an internal knowledge management system, and some educators have assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects.

Sites using MediaWiki
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MediaWiki's most famous use has been in Wikipedia and, to a lesser degree, Wikimedia's other projects. But MediaWiki has also been used to power tens of thousands of other wikis, both public and private.

A number of alternative wiki encyclopedias to Wikipedia run on MediaWiki, including #Citizendium, #Conservapedia, #Metapedia and #Scholarpedia. #Wikia, a wiki farm, runs on MediaWiki. Other public wikis that run on MediaWiki include #wikiHow and #WikiLeaks. MediaWiki is also used internally by a large number of companies, including #Novell and #Intel.

Notable usages of MediaWiki within governments include #Intellipedia, used by the United States Intelligence Community, and #Diplopedia, used by the United States Department of State. United Nations agencies such as the U.N. Development Programme and #INSTRAW chose to implement their wikis using MediaWiki because "this software runs Wikipedia and is therefore guaranteed to be thoroughly tested, will continue to be developed well into the future, and future technicians on these wikis will be more likely to have exposure to MediaWiki than any other wiki software.

source : mediawiki(dot)org and Wikipedia

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