MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, and other projects. It's designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.

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Probiere mich gerade an den SpecialPage Extensions der MediaWiki aus. Sieht gar nicht so schwer aus. djassi — 3 months ago

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over 2 years ago Avatar
the great wiki

    by epe

Mediawiki is definitely the greatest Wiki out there - counted by the number of Wikis on the web, by the amount of content available on different WikiMedia Projects and by the huge traffic they have.
I have been using MediaWiki for my own projects and it's been running well. WikiSPAM happens from time to time, there is AntiSpam extensions, although they could be easier to install.
MediaWiki is most suited for sites which try to collect ... [More] content and build a knowledge-base similar to wikipedia.
If you need a wiki for project/corporate use, choose one, that has usergroups and permissions integrated. This is possible somehow, but not a priority for Mediawiki developers. [Less]

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about 1 year ago Avatar
The Wiki

  by huji

MediaWiki is the leading wiki engine in the world, and many other wiki engines are written under the influence of standards initiatted by MediaWiki.

Unlike wishcow, I think with the recent changes to the MediaWiki core, and addition of WYSIWYG extensions (and a lot more exntesions), MediaWiki is still far beyond its competitors.

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    Power outage in Wikimedia’s European servers

    This seems to be a power outage at our European proxy caching cluster; we’ll see if we can give more details later.

    European traffic has been rerouted to our US servers, but the extra load may cause the sites to be a little sluggish for now. (If your DNS is still seeing the old entries, you [...]

    Improving Wikimedia’s Discussion System

    Hi all,
    Some of you might have already seen my blog posts about LiquidThreads, Wikimedia’s in-development discussion system.
    For those who haven’t, this is a quick primer on what LiquidThreads is, and what it’s going to do for ... [More] Wikimedia’s communities.
    Currently, Wikimedia’s discussion system sucks. Here’s why:

    It’s not easily usable by the average user. It isn’t obvious how [...] [Less]

    First usability release, Acai, is now available.

    The first usability release, Acai, hit Wikipedia and sister projects this afternoon. The new skin, Vector, and the enhanced toolbar can be turned on from the user preference under “Appearance” and “Editing”. Search result page now has a new ... [More] layout with less daunting information. Vector is only available for left-to-right languages at [...] [Less]

    Open Translation Tools 2009 report

    With six projects in over 250 languages, multilingual communication and content translation are big priorities for us. That’s one reason I was excited to go to the Open Translation Tools 2009 conference and be in the same room with 80 other translators, content providers and developers all working in the open translation space. [...]

    Downtime on en.wikipedia.org resolved

    We had 52 minutes of downtime on the English-language Wikipedia site today; only en.wikipedia.org was affected. Our master database server was thrown into a funky state in which hundreds of access threads were stuck in the “statistics” state — ... [More] which seems to be MySQL’s way of saying “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”.
    It’s unclear [...] [Less]

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Codebase 1,716,401
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