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.

MediaWiki is one example of such an application.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

Wikia also uses MediaWiki Software.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 >.

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

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.