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    MediaWiki

    • Free • Open Source
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
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    MediaWiki info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to MediaWiki
    MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
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    Features Vote on or suggest new features

    • WYSIWYG Support
    • Structured data
    • Support for Multiple Users
    • Version history
    • Custom templates
    • Business-wiki
    • Semantic Data
    • Multi-user editing
    • Encyclopedia
    • Syntax Highlighting
    • Wiki-like interface
    • CMS
    • Wiki
    • Web-Based

    Comments and Reviews Post a comment / reviewSort: relevance • date

    jamiegray
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    • Review • about 3 years ago • 4 users agree • 0 replies
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    it powers most wiki sites, but its UI / UX is stuck in 2002. We need an alternative to MediaWiki which can import all content from other wiki sites & rehost it onto a good 2018-styled MediaWiki.

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    akuckartz
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    • Positive comment • about 1 year ago • 2 users agree • 0 replies
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    Open Source. Supported by large community. Especially useful with semantic-mediawiki

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    1_aberlin
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    • Positive comment • over 4 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    not many realize with MediaWiki you have in some use-cases a youTube alternative (see here )

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    Ninjaneer
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    • Positive comment • about 1 year ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    Best knowledge management platform I've found

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    jujujoly
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    • Positive comment • 6 months ago • 1 reply
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    Very good software to me. Very easy to self-host yet powerful!

    BryonManning

    Share information, please

    Reply written 6 months ago

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about MediaWiki, and it has gotten 146 likes

    • Open Source and Free product.
    • Average rating of 4.4
    • 72 alternatives listed

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    MediaWiki was added to AlternativeTo by santaro on Jan 3, 2010 and this page was last updated Dec 3, 2020.
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