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.

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

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 >.

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.

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

MediaWiki is a free web-based wiki software application.

MediaWiki is free and open source software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version while its documentation is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3. 0 license and partly in the public domain.

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.

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.

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.

Some users find that setting up a virtual host is helpful if the majority of one's site runs under a framework ( such as Zope or Ruby on Rails ) that is largely incompatible with MediaWiki.

It is not supported by MediaWiki.

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

Wikia, one of the world's most popular wiki farms, runs on MediaWiki.

Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.

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

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 ).

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Software like MediaWiki uses " magic words " to make system information available to templates and editors, such as < nowiki ></ nowiki >, which displays the server time:, see Help: Magic words.

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.

Either with their own domain, or with a free subdomain, customers are able to make use of a number of open source applications, such as WordPress and MediaWiki without charge.

* 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.

JurisPedia runs on the MediaWiki application, but it is not a Wikimedia Foundation project.

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

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.

* 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.

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

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.

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.