Category:MediaWiki

This MediaWiki software is the software package that runs this WikiIndex wiki site. Originally designed for Wikipedia (though not the original Wikipedia wiki engine – that was the Perl-based UseModWiki); MediaWiki is now one of the most active and largest wikis, it is also used extensively by other  projects; along with many, many other independent wikis.

MediaWiki, written in , is probably the most widely deployed wiki engine . Some would argue that a wiki should be more simplistic, with fewer features; but MediaWikis' design avoids many of the clutter/feature–creep problems which can appear in other mature wiki engines, and its success speaks for itself. MediaWiki has spawned many clones, the most notable being Wikia. MediaWiki is a highly developed, feature-rich software that is released for under version 2 of the  (GNU GPL v2), and requires  either MySQL 5.0.2+, PostgreSQL, or SQLite for datastorage,

Here are the MediaWiki Users forums. And this fellow found all installs of the code.


 * MediaWiki size information: add /Special:Statistics at the end of the URL – eg.  (non-English language versions will automatically convert this to actual language).  Dependent on software version, there is a number called "Content pages" or sometimes "pages that are probably legitimate content pages" -- use that lower number.  Ignore the (often much larger) "all pages in the wiki, including redirects" number.  We can also add MediaWiki listings to the http://s23.org/wikistats/mediawikis_html.php system which tracks various wiki stats.
 * MediaWiki wikiFactor information: go to the /Special:PopularPages page of the wiki –


 * See also
 * Category:MediaWiki wiki farms
 * MediaWikiOrg Twitter feed — (rather dormant and inactive!)
 * MediaWikiOrg Facebook page
 * MediaWiki Developers Facebook group
 * List of top 100 private MediaWikis, from WikiStats by s23.org
 * Help:Contents — from MediaWiki

The wikis in this category listed below are powered by the MediaWiki wiki engine.