Q83

Also known as Mediawiki, mw

MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software system originally developed by Magnus Manske and released for use on Wikipedia on January 25, 2002, and further enhanced by Lee Daniel Crocker, after which development has been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation. It powers several wiki hosting websites across the Internet, as well as most websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, Meta-Wiki and Wikidata, which define a large part of the set requirements for the software. Besides its usage on Wikimedia sites, MediaWiki has bee

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MediaWiki is a software system with an official website at mediawiki.org. It was first released on January 25, 2002. The source code is maintained in repositories at github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki, wikipedia.cvs.sourceforge.net, svn.wikimedia.org, and gerrit.wikimedia.org. Issue tracking occurs via phabricator.wikimedia.org and bugzilla.wikimedia.org.

The software has several version identifiers, including 1.23.14, 1.24.4, 1.25.3, and 1.27.0. User manuals, FAQs, and credits are available on mediawiki.org. Community support includes mailing lists at lists.wikimedia.org, an IRC channel on irc.libera.chat, and a Stack Exchange tag. Official demos are hosted on test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org.

MediaWiki has 4,531 social media followers. It is categorized under "MediaWiki" on Commons. The subject is referenced by 572 other encyclopedia articles. It is also described at tapor.ca and marketplace.sshopencloud.eu.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Software.name: MediaWiki
Software.screenshot: English Wikipedia screenshot.png
Software.caption: The Main Page of the English Wikipedia running an alpha version of MediaWiki 1.40
Software.collapsible: yes
Software.developer: Wikimedia Foundation
Software.programming language: PHP
Software.operating system: Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
Software.size: 79.05 MiB (compressed)
Software.language count: 459
Software.genre: Wiki software
Software.license: GPLv2+
Software.bodystyle: width:323px

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Official website

MediaWiki

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TAPoR

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Source code

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: wiki software
Developer: Wikimedia Foundation
Platform: cross-platform
Official website: www.mediawiki.org
Image: 20210524 MediaWiki software screenshot en.png
Motto: Because ideas want to be free.
Has use: web development

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issue tracker URL: bugzilla.wikimedia.org
source code repository URL: ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki
programmed in: Q2005
copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
Commons category: MediaWiki
topic's main category: Category:MediaWiki
software version identifier: 1.45.3
depends on software: Memcached
language of work or name: Buryat
publication date: 2002-01-25
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/mediawiki
Commons gallery: MediaWiki
inception: 2002-01-25
software quality assurance: continuous integration
influenced by: UseModWiki
uses: relational database management system
operating system: Solaris
social media followers: 4531
mailing list archive URL: lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l
user manual URL: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents
IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat:6697/mediawiki
credits URL: translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:MediaWiki/Credits
FAQ URL: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ
has goal: extensibility
build system: Grunt
official demo URL: test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests/Tools
translation contribution URL: translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:MediaWiki
official server list URL: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki
described at URL: marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/rmTSoA

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Encyclopedic overview

42 sections

Contents

Key features
Internationalization and localization
Installation and configuration
Markup
A dialogue
Editing interface
Application programming interface
Tracking edits
Navigation
Wikilinks
Interwiki links
Interlanguage links
Content organization
Page tabs and associated pages
{{anchor|Talk page|Namespace}} Namespaces
Category tags
Subpages
Customization
Templates
Groups and restriction of access
Extensibility
Extensions
Text manipulation
Lua extension
For footnotes and academic-related display
Integration
Combating linkspam
Searches and queries
Rich content
Database
Performance and storage
Limitations
Security
Support
License
Development
History
Sites using MediaWiki
Comparison to other online collaboration software
See also
References
External links

MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language and stores all text content into a database. The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of views per second. Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest and most visited websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has been a major concern for developers. Another major aspect of MediaWiki is its internationalization; its interface is available in more than 400 languages. The software has hundreds of configuration settings and more than 1,000 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed.

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