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8/10 RockinJack says:
The wiki of the wikis
Yes ... pretty much it's what it is. After trying a bunch of wiki (...)
10/10 Tibby says:

This is definitely in my opinion the best wiki software out there. It's even (...)
10/10 Anamaria says:
The mighty MediaWiki
We've recently installed MediaWiki to set up a nice knowledge base for our (...)
9/10 NicolasV says:
The leader, but could be better
MediaWiki powers wikipedia, which has helped establish it as the leading wiki (...)
9/10 Anonymous says:
Best wiki
This is definitely the best wiki around but although initial setup is intuitive (...)
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MediaWiki


[edit] Brief Description

MediaWiki is one of the most used wiki software application and it can be used as a content management system too. First was written for Wikipedia but is now is used to other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation and many other sites. The last version brings features like undo revision, improvements to blocking and page caching, tables with sortable columns, edit counter field and revision size displayed on recent changes.

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Contents
  1. Description
  2. Screenshots
  3. Product history
  4. Extensions
  5. See also

Description

If you are here, you may already know what a wiki is but let me remind you just to be sure you are on the right place. Check out our wiki about the wikis on this iterating wiki and I'm sure you won't be confused anymore

Licensed under GNU General Public License, Media Wiki is the most popular wiki solution out there. Why? Just because a couple of million people already saw it running all smoothly on Wikipedia servers. And because it can be customized to easily for an user needs. And because it's easy, it uses PHP and a MYSql database. And development teams are constantly adding something new to it

Screenshots

Product history

Extensions

Extensions can add new features to the main MediaWiki core so that you can adapt it to your own needs. They are very important as they give a lot of value to this wiki applications and depending on the user needs these add-ons can:

  • extend the wiki markup (new buttons, functions)
  • add new reporting and administrative capabilities
  • change the design
  • change security rules and authentication procedures

See also

Resources:  Vendor/Foundation |  Licenses |  Linux Distributions |  Programming Languages |  Programming Interfaces (API) |  Graphical Interfaces (GUI) |  Available Languages