Mediawiki
Wiki software package that powers Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, serving hundreds of millions of users each month.
Developed outside the platforms our data source measures, so there is no activity history to score. This says nothing about the project — many unrated projects are actively maintained.
Activity data
Not available for this project. Our source collects commit history from GitHub only, and Mediawiki is developed elsewhere.
| Stars | not measured |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | — |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Mediawiki actively maintained?
We cannot measure this one. Mediawiki is developed outside the platforms our data source collects activity from, and its repository lives at phabricator.wikimedia.org — so there is no commit history or release cadence here to score.
Read that as missing data, not as a warning. Several of the best-maintained projects in this catalogue are unrated for exactly this reason. To judge it, open the repository and look at the date of the most recent commit yourself.
What Mediawiki actually does
MediaWiki is a web-based wiki application designed to facilitate collaborative documentation and knowledge management. It provides the core engine used by large-scale collaborative reference sites to organise, link, and edit hypertext documents across multiple users.
Best fit: It is a suitable choice if you need to host a large, structured knowledge base or documentation repository modelled on the architecture of Wikipedia.
Worth knowing: Operational maintenance can be complex due to the extensive configuration required for extensions, caching layers, and search backends. Additionally, while the core codebase is mature, setup and administration demand dedicated system administration effort.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server such as Nginx or Apache, a relational database like MySQL or MariaDB, and persistent storage for uploaded media files.
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