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MediaWiki

The free and open source wiki software that powers Wikipedia.

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Overview

MediaWiki is the open-source wiki software that was originally developed for and is used by Wikipedia. It is designed to handle extremely large websites with high traffic, and is powerful, scalable, and feature-rich. It is suitable for creating large, collaborative knowledge bases.

✨ Key Features

  • Extremely scalable and powerful
  • Robust versioning and change history
  • Large and active developer community
  • Thousands of extensions for added functionality
  • Multilingual support
  • Categorization and templates for structured data

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Proven scalability to handle the world's largest wikis
  • Unmatched extensibility through a massive library of extensions
  • Powerful features for content organization like templates and categories

Unique Value: Provides a free, battle-tested, and endlessly customizable platform capable of scaling to meet the most demanding knowledge management needs.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Large-scale public wikis Corporate Knowledge Bases Documentation Collaborative encyclopedias

✅ Best For

  • Powering Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
  • Large enterprise knowledge management systems
  • Community-driven public knowledge bases

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Small teams needing a simple, easy-to-use wiki
  • Users without technical expertise to install and maintain it
  • Real-time collaborative editing

🏆 Alternatives

Confluence DokuWiki XWiki

Far more scalable and powerful than simpler open-source options like DokuWiki or BookStack, but also significantly more complex to set up and manage.

💻 Platforms

Web Self-Hosted

🔌 Integrations

LDAP SAML Countless integrations available via extensions

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ GDPR ✓ SSO

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

Free tier: Self-hosted, no limits

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