MediaWiki
Free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Also known as Mediawiki · mw
- Developer
- Founded
- January 25, 2002
- Released
- January 25, 2002
- Latest version
- 1.46.1
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Sources- 1.“Security and maintenance release: 1.43.10 / 1.45.5 / 1.46.1 - MediaWiki-announce - lists.wikimedia.org”lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4WXGIT3HVZ7QSELSPT6BX7XUFM6UMW2D/Retrieved 2026-10-01
- , 1.23.14
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Sources- 1.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/releases/tag/1.23.14Retrieved 2019-11-04
- , 1.24.4
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Sources- 1.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/releases/tag/1.24.4Retrieved 2019-11-04
- +57 more
- 1.46.1
- Written in
- PHP
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Sources- 1.Stated in Open Hub“The mediawiki Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page”openhub.net/p/mediawiki/analyses/latest/languages_summaryRetrieved 2018-07-14
- , JavaScript
- PHP
- License
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
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Sources- 1.“mediawiki/COPYING”phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/COPYINGRetrieved 2020-03-15
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
- Operating system
- cross-platform
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Sources- 1.“Release Notes”mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notesRetrieved 2024-03-01
- , GNU/Linux
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- , Microsoft Windows
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- +6 more
- cross-platform
- Website
Overview
All data
617 statements · 82% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Software quality assurance
- continuous integration described at url: github.com
- Awards
- STUG Award(2010) together with: Wikimedia Foundation · award rationale: largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia · significant person: Magnus Manske, Lee Daniel Crocker
- Les Trophées du Libre(2005)
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- Motto text
- Because ideas want to be free.
- Has use
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- Platforms
- cross-platform
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Sources- 1.“Release Notes”mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notesRetrieved 2024-03-01
- cross-platform
- Contributor to the creative work or subject
- Brooke Vibber
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Sources- 1.gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/CREDITSRetrieved 2020-09-25
- Magnus Manske(until 2007)
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Sources- 1.gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/CREDITSRetrieved 2020-09-25
- Lee Daniel Crocker(until 2003)
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Sources- 1.gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/CREDITSRetrieved 2020-09-25
- Sam Reed(since 2009)
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Sources- 1.gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/CREDITSRetrieved 2020-09-25
- Jeroen De Dauw(since 2009)
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Sources- 1.gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/CREDITSRetrieved 2021-10-10
- Niklas Laxström
- Tim Starling
- Kunal Mehta
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- Brooke Vibber
- Maintained by
- Sam Reed(2020)
- Social media followers
- 4,531(July 2, 2025) x (twitter) numeric user id: 378261200
- 1,775(July 2, 2025) mastodon address: mediawiki@wikis.world
- 1,129(April 11, 2024) mastodon address: mediawiki@wikis.world
- 1,081(March 16, 2024) mastodon address: mediawiki@wikis.world
- 1,037(February 12, 2024) mastodon address: mediawiki@wikis.world
- 3,826(January 4, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 378261200
- Depends on software
- PHP
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- MariaDB
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- MySQL
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- PostgreSQL
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- SQLite
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- ImageMagick
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- diff3
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- Memcached
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Sources- 1.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirementsRetrieved 2024-08-06
- PHP
- Language
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- Tunisian Arabic
- Afrikaans
- Gheg
- Altai
- Amharic
- Amis
- Aragonese
- Old English
- Obolo
- Angika
- Levantine Arabic
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Mapudungun
- Algerian Arabic
- Moroccan Arabic
- Egyptian Arabic
- Assamese
- American Sign Language
- Asturian
- Atikamekw
- Avar
- Kotava
- Awadhi
- Aymara
- Azerbaijani
- South Azerbaijani
- Bashkir
- Balinese
- Bavarian
- Toba Batak
- Batak Toba in Latin script
- Southern Balochi
- Baoulé
- Bikol
- West Coast Bajau
- Belarusian
- Betawi
- Bulgarian
- Western Balochi
- Bihari
- Bhojpuri
- Bislama
- Banjar
- Pa'O
- Bambara
- Bangla
- Tibetan
- Bishnupriya Manipuri
- Bakhtiari
- Breton
- Brahui
On other databases
50 identifiers linking MediaWiki across the web's reference databases
- AlternativeTo IDmediawiki
- Arch Linux packagemediawiki
- ArchWiki articleMediaWiki
- AUR packagemediawiki-lts
- Australian Trade Mark Number1515327
- BabelNet ID02591762n
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID161518359
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10998587
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures IDCVE-2022-41767
- Debian stable packagemediawiki
- Debian Wiki articleMediaWiki
- Dewey Decimal Classification006.75
- Docker Hub repositorylibrary/mediawiki
- Facebook usernameMediaWikiProject
- Fandom article IDuk.vijskpens:MediaWiki
- FAST ID1787011
- File Format Wiki page IDMediaWiki
- Framalibre IDmediawiki
- Free Software Directory entryMediaWiki
- Freebase ID/m/01vw7p
- FreeBSD portwww/mediawiki133
- Gentoo packagewww-apps/mediawiki
- Gentoo Wiki articleMediaWiki
- GitHub topicmediawiki
- GND ID7629446-8
- IdRef ID136838251
- J9U entity ID987007381862805171
- Library of Congress Authorities IDno2008146905
- MacPorts portmediawiki
- Mastodon addressmediawiki@wikis.world
- Namuwiki ID미디어위키
- NetBSD package IDwww/mediawiki
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDmediawiki
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1526074
- Open Hub IDmediawiki
- Open Library subject IDmediawiki_(electronic_resource)
- OSDN projectfreshmeat_mediawiki
- Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID3995
- Quora topic IDMediaWiki
- Repology project namemediawiki
- Semantic Scholar topic ID308311
- SILL software ID86
- SourceForge projectwikipedia
- Subredditmediawiki
- Ubuntu packagemediawiki
- VIAF cluster ID186178691
- Vikidia article IDen:MediaWiki
- WikiKids IDMediaWiki
- X (Twitter) usernamemediawiki
- Zhihu topic ID19611014