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'''MediaWiki''' [http://www.mediawiki.org (.org)] is the software [[Consumerium]] uses on its [[R&D wiki]] which you are using right now. | '''MediaWiki''' [http://www.mediawiki.org (.org)] is the software [[Consumerium]] uses on its [[R&D wiki]] which you are using right now. | ||
'''Figuring out how to best use it's extra [[namespaces]], [[templates]], [[categories]], [[MediaWiki/extensions|extensions]] and [[MediaWiki/widgets|widgets]] for achieving Consumium [[goals]] is of the essence of the Consumium effort. | It has grown a sturdy, reliable and versatile now with support for '''[[mw:MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle|multilinguality]] and [[Wikidata|structured data]]''' ( in the works ) support in MediaWiki. Figuring out how to best use it's extra [[namespaces]], [[templates]], [[categories]], [[MediaWiki/extensions|extensions]] and [[MediaWiki/widgets|widgets]] for achieving Consumium [[goals]] is of the essence of the Consumium effort. | ||
During the [[ | During the [[Timeline of MediaWiki|years of it's evolution]] MediaWiki has grown to include novel ways of extending the software with possibility to have [[categories]], extra [[namespaces]], [[templates]], [[MediaWiki/extensions]] and later on with [[MediaWiki/widgets]] | ||
[[mw:MediaWiki history]], [[mw:Release notes]] and [[mw:Roadmap]] shed light on the developments of the MediaWiki software from Magnus Manske's original "PhaseIII" code rewrite into PHP Who'd known that PHP scripts run one of the planets biggest sites [[Wikipedia]] and has thus been proven to scale to serve tens of thousands or even hundereds thousands of requests per second. | [[mw:MediaWiki history]], [[mw:Release notes]] and [[mw:Roadmap]] shed light on the developments of the MediaWiki software from Magnus Manske's original "PhaseIII" code rewrite into PHP Who'd known that PHP scripts run one of the planets biggest sites [[Wikipedia]] and has thus been proven to scale to serve tens of thousands or even hundereds thousands of requests per second. | ||
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== Sites using MediaWiki == | |||
the most popular page using MediaWiki is Wikipedia. But MediaWiki is also used by tens of thousands other different wikis, public and private. | |||
Some of the most popular wikis are: | |||
- Wikia (a wiki farm) | |||
- wikiHow | |||
- WikiLeaks | |||
It is also in use by a large amount of companies as an internal Wiki (e.g.: Novell and Intel). | |||
Also the government makes use of MediaWiki: | |||
- Intellipedia, used by the United States Intelligence Community and | |||
- Diplopedia, used by United States Department of State | |||