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

But, MediaWiki has also been used to power tens of thousands of other wikis, both public and private.

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.

The MediaWiki community publishes a comprehensive installation guide.

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.

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 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.

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 >.

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

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

A MediaWiki extension called ProofreadPage was developed for Wikisource by developer ThomasV to improve the vetting of trancriptions by the project.

The software used for this task is MediaWiki.

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 ).

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.

PyPy, Drupal and MediaWiki are some applications that hold development hackathons.

* The Interactive Fiction Wiki, a MediaWiki wiki specific to Interactive Fiction.

* Daniel J. Barrett, MediaWiki, O ' Reilly Media, 2008, ISBN 0-596-51979-6, p. 84

Software that uses PHP includes MediaWiki, Joomla, Wordpress, Concrete5, MyBB, and Drupal.

Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.

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

Later wiki engines, such as MediaWiki, dropped this convention.

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.

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.

MediaWiki is one example of such an application.

The current best-known semantic wiki software is Semantic MediaWiki, a plugin to MediaWiki.

Either stand-alone ( such as MediaWiki ), part of a suite ( such as TikiWiki ) or web-based such as Wetpaint.

Above is " MF Stavangerfjord " which goes between Arsvågen and Mortavika in Rogaland < script type =" text / javascript " src =" http :// de. wikipedia. org / w / index. php? title = MediaWiki: Gadget-revisionjumper. js & action = raw & ctype = text / javascript "></ script >.