Overview MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki. MediaWiki is an open source project released under the GNU/GPL 2 terms.

Features

• Links with shortcuts
• Skins
• User styles
• "Stub" threshold
• Printable versions
• Auto-number headings
• Intra-page Anchors
• Generate a table of contents
• Automatically turn ISBN numbers into links
• XHTML-compatible
• File upload featurs
• Mathematical formulas
• Automatic resizing of images
• WikiHiero
• EasyTimeline for time charts
• Every page has a link "Watch this article for me"
• User contributions
• Extended recent changes
• Related changes
• Side-by-side diffs
• Users can (optionally) specify a "real name"
• On-page credits
• Database-driven (MySQL and PostgreSQL are both supported)
• Parser caching
• Output caching
• Cookie-based account and login system, but anonymous users can also edit pages
• All revisions of an article are stored (optionally compressed)
• RSS syndication available for many special pages
• RDF metadata