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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
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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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Recognizable interface, but getting old
by wishcow
There is poor support for rich editors like FCKEdit and TinyMCE, the overall interface is starting to look a bit dated. I would recommend this wiki especially because it is the one used for wikipedia, and thus very recognizable by people and lowers the learning curve for using it.
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The most advanced wiki engine
MediaWiki is undoubtedly the most advanced wiki engine that has been already written; at least I have not found anything similar. It is the best for creating a knowledge base with Wikipedia-like structure and organizing the community content, for example tutorials and articles.
One of the advantages of Mediawiki is very rich set of community extensions that add extra features to MW. Many of them have a very good quality, especially if
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