* The MediaWiki Widgets extension and related widget collections

Wikimedia participates in the Google Summer of Code by facilitating the assignment of mentors to students wishing to work on MediaWiki core and extension projects.

* Semantic MediaWiki, a software extension to MediaWiki

Manager Phil Inje Chang called for user feedback via an associated MediaWiki page.

/* This CSS is called in addition to MediaWiki: Common. css.

The Wikimedia Foundation was announced on June 20, 2003, and in July, Wikipedia contributor Daniel Mayer suggested the name " MediaWiki " for the software, as a play on " Wikimedia ".

The logo came in third place, and was chosen to represent MediaWiki instead of Wikipedia, with the second place logo used for the Wikimedia Foundation.

The first version of MediaWiki, 1. 1, was released in December 2003.

The current stable version of MediaWiki, 1. 19, was released in May 2012.

One of the earliest differences between MediaWiki ( and its predecessor, UseModWiki ) and other wiki engines was the use of " free links " instead of CamelCase.

When MediaWiki was created, it was typical for wikis to require text like " WorldWideWeb " to create a link to a page about the World Wide Web: links in MediaWiki, on the other hand, are created by surrounding words with double square brackets, and any spaces between them are left intact, e. g. < code >< nowiki > World Wide Web </ nowiki ></ code >.

The speed of development picked up somewhat after the MediaWiki software was upgraded to Phase III in late November, 2003, and continued to increase steadily through 2004.

More than 600 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing MediaWiki sites.

United Nations agencies such as the U. N. Development Programme and INSTRAW chose to implement their wikis using MediaWiki because " this software runs Wikipedia and is therefore guaranteed to be thoroughly tested, will continue to be developed well into the future, and future technicians on these wikis will be more likely to have exposure to MediaWiki than any other wiki software.

* open government mechanisms including those for public participation and engagement, such as the use of IdeaScale, Google Moderator, Semantic MediaWiki, and other software by actual ruling governments – these mechanisms are well developed especially in the UK and the USA.

The MediaWiki software has an additional feature which uses similar notation to create automatic interlanguage links — for instance, the link < code >< nowiki > de: InterWiki </ nowiki ></ code > ( with no leading colon ) automatically creates a reference labeled " Other languages: Deutsch | ..." at the top and bottom of, or in a sidebar next to, the article display.

Steve Slevinski has released the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin for viewing SignWriting within MediaWiki.

Some open-source wiki applications, though they do not specifically bill themselves as enterprise solutions, have marketing materials geared for enterprise users, like Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware and MediaWiki.

* Template: ESp ' Edit Semi Protected ' - the choice of a graphic symbol for responding to semi protected requests on talk pages of MediaWiki.

New features include bookmark support for PDF export, MediaWiki export in Writer.

Backtracking is also utilized in the ( diff ) difference engine for the MediaWiki software.

* Backtracking is also utilized in the " diff " ( version comparing ) engine for the MediaWiki software.

Some educators have also assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects.

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki.

MediaWiki has an active volunteer community for development and maintenance.

The double square brackets around the photo of a sunflower symbolize the syntax MediaWiki uses for creating hyperlinks to other wiki pages.

Some aspects of MediaWiki can be configured through special pages or by editing certain pages ; for instance, abuse filters can be configured through a special page, and certain gadgets can be added by creating JavaScript pages in the MediaWiki namespace.

Tools exist for converting content such as tables between MediaWiki markup and HTML.

Because of this, MediaWiki, for example, has had to introduce its own < code >< nowiki ></ nowiki ></ code > tag for citing references in notes, an idea which has since also been implemented for generic use by the Nelson HTML preprocessor.

* Pages in the MediaWiki namespace, which contain system messages and text for the user interface

The software used for this task is MediaWiki.

The PmWiki wiki markup shares similarities with MediaWiki ( used by Wikipedia ).

Since, August 2005 the TVFriends project is hosted by Wikia ( which also runs on MediaWiki ).

Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software.

Major MediaWiki releases are generated approximately every three to eight months by taking snapshots of the development trunk, which is kept continuously in a runnable state ; minor releases, or point releases, are issued as needed to correct bugs ( especially security problems ).

MediaWiki is also used internally by a large number of companies, including Novell and Intel.

Notable usages of MediaWiki within governments include Intellipedia, used by the United States Intelligence Community, and Diplopedia, used by the United States Department of State.

It is not supported by MediaWiki.

This list is used by MediaWiki to know what pages are disambiguation pages, and thus not articles.

The Template feature of MediaWiki is an embedded domain-specific language whose fundamental purpose is to support the creation of page templates and the transclusion ( inclusion by reference ) of MediaWiki pages into other MediaWiki pages.

* In December 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that by mid 2008 MediaWiki, which powers Wikipedia and a number of other Internet wiki-based sites, will provide OpenDocument export of wiki content.

Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.

These section anchors are automatically used by MediaWiki when it generates a table of contents for the page, and therefore when a section heading in the ToC is clicked, it will jump to the section.