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MediaWiki

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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Self-Hosted
  • PHP
  • Cloudron
  • Sandstorm
4 / 5 Avg rating (7)
173 likes
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Features

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  1.  WYSIWYG Support
  2.  File Versioning
  3.  Business-wiki
  4.  Multi-user editing
  5.  Semantic Data
  6.  Wiki
  7.  Syntax Highlighting
  8.  Ad-free
  9.  Suggests DSL format
  10.  Web-Based
  11.  Wiki-like interface
  12.  Structured data
  13.  Support for Multiple Users
  14.  Custom templates
  15.  Lua scripting
  16.  Encyclopedia

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MediaWiki information

  • Developed by

    Wikimedia Foundation
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    86 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about MediaWiki, and it has gotten 173 likes

MediaWiki was added to AlternativeTo by santaro on Jan 3, 2010 and this page was last updated Dec 25, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Andreas Kuckartz
  
Top positive commentFeb 9, 2020

Open Source. Supported by large community. Especially useful with semantic-mediawiki

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ab1
  
Top negative commentJun 28, 2022
• Edited Feb 12, 2023

MediaWiki doesn't care what users think. They don't ask "How would you rate the article you read?" questions. I don't know if any Extensions can fix this or how easily...

It takes decades for MediaWiki developers to do even some basic stuff...

Nobody makes money with MediaWiki except fanatics.

2 replies
cd967119

do you think Miraheze is better?

Reply written Aug 15, 2023

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ab1

MediaWiki has major problems which are decades old now... Developers don't use their own programs or don't care fix problems.

Most other companies don't care about Wikitext at all... Wikitext isn't a standard. Wikitext brings more problems than it solves anything.

MediaWiki developers censor criticics of MediaWiki nearly EVERYWHERE.

Reply written Feb 6, 2024

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Karsten Hoffmeyer
  
Positive commentSep 21, 2022

I goes well beyond what you can do with just an encyclopedia. I allows for knowledge management at its best catering for a very large variety of use cases.

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Snow Code
  
Positive commentSep 11, 2020

Very good software to me. Very easy to self-host yet powerful!

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Ninjaneer
  
Positive commentFeb 10, 2020

Best knowledge management platform I've found

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jamiegray
  
ReviewFeb 4, 2018

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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1_aberlin
  
Positive commentSep 20, 2016

not many realize with MediaWiki you have in some use-cases a youTube alternative (see here )

1 reply
ab1

Not usable now.

Reply written Jul 13, 2022

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What is 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.

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