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.

The TV IV runs MediaWiki software, but has disabled anonymous editing and has licensed the content under the Creative Commons license ( cc-by-2. 5 ).

MediaWiki development has generally favored the use of open-source media formats.

MediaWiki has an active volunteer community for development and maintenance.

MediaWiki has a public bug tracker, bugzilla. wikimedia. org, which runs Bugzilla.

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.

" To promote internal collaboration, NRCan has implemented a departmental wide wiki based on MediaWiki.

Many of the enterprise wiki applications, such as TWiki, Confluence and SharePoint, also support such features, as do open-source applications like MediaWiki and XWiki, via plugins.

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

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.

Wikia also uses MediaWiki Software.

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

These elements may also exist in other markup languages, such as MediaWiki ; the Text Encoding Initiative ( TEI ) provides an extensive selection of related elements for marking editorial activity ( insertion, deletion, correction, addition, etc.

The existing default notice for the anonymous user talk pages at MediaWiki: Anontalkpagetext would also be amended under this proposal.

Using the plugins, they can also export albums to 23hq, Facebook, Flickr, Gallery2, Google Earth's KML files, Yandex. Fotki, MediaWiki, Rajce, SmugMug, Piwigo, Simpleviewer, burn them on a CD, or create web galleries.

All language instances of Wikipedia have since been moved over to MediaWiki.

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

Efforts have been made to create a MediaWiki markup spec, but a consensus seems to have been reached that Wikicode requires context-sensitive grammar rules.

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

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.

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.

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

The software used for this task is MediaWiki.

MediaWiki provides the even-numbered namespaces for document mode, often used for articles and other pages such as policy documents, and for each an odd-numbered namespace for discussion, in thread mode.

Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.

The difference engine is the same as the one used in MediaWiki.

Notice that the same double-brace syntax is used for many MediaWiki variables and parser functions ( see Help: Magic words ).

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.

For lines of CSS which should be different on different MediaWiki projects, e. g. for a different background color for easy distinction, clearly the local CSS cannot be used ; at least these lines should be put in the user subpages.

Among public wikis, MediaWiki is the dominant software: it powers the world's most popular public wiki, Wikipedia, as well as the most popular wiki farm, Wikia, and it is the most popular software in use on other public wikis as well.

Other wiki software is available in both hosted and downloadable form, including Confluence, Socialtext, MediaWiki ( available on Wikia and EditThis. info, among other sites ) and XWiki.

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

Specifically, the manuals and other content at MediaWiki. org are Creative Commons-licensed, while the set of help pages intended to be freely copied into fresh wiki installations and / or distributed with MediaWiki software is public domain.

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

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.

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 >.

* Interwiki links in MediaWiki and other wiki software.

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.

However, a setting only affects other webpages if they use the same CSS selector ; e. g. a setting for the selector a. extiw affects fewer pages on the web than one for h2 ( but it affects at least all MediaWiki projects, not just one ).

* 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.