Wiki Mediawiki Information
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About MediaWiki
MediaWiki is the open-source wiki application best known for powering Wikipedia from the beginning of 2003.
It is also the most popular wiki application in the world, in use on tens of thousands of sites in many different languages, on wikis for everyone from small groups to communities to government agencies and major corporations.
MediaWiki is based on
- Wiki engine for managing hypertext
- Wiki pages are formatted hypertext documents
- "Wikitext" input converted to HTML output
- Very popular - more than 100.000 sites
- ex. Wikipedia, Wikia
- User interface in hundreds of languages
- Free, Open Source, open development
- Written in PHP and JavaScript, main DB is MySQL
