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MediaWiki

The wiki engine that powers Wikipedia

Wikis & Documentation ★ 5.1k stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

MediaWiki is the free, open-source wiki software developed for and used by Wikipedia. It is built to handle large collaborative knowledge bases with powerful templating, extensions, and revision history.

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Key features

  • Powers Wikipedia at scale
  • Powerful template system
  • Vast extension library
  • Full revision history

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Battle-tested at massive scale
  • Huge extension ecosystem

Trade-offs

  • Wikitext has a learning curve
  • Setup can be involved

MediaWiki replaces

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