MediaWiki the open source knowledge base software

MediaWiki open source and free software

What is MediaWiki ?

MediaWiki is an open source and free software or wiki engine, support for many collaborative websites around the world, including Wikipedia. See our services relating to MediaWiki : Hosting, Installation, Support, Maintenance...

It is also used internally by many companies or organizations such as NATO, NASA, Intel, VistaPrint… Indeed, a wiki powered by MediaWiki within an organization becomes a powerful collaborative tool by allowing to create, share and efficiently manage information in one place, thus avoiding the formation of duplicates and reducing the volume of emails exchanged between employees.

MediaWiki is based on open source technologies such as PHP or MySQL and has thousands [1] of extensions allowing it to increase its possibilities. You don't need to know any particular syntax or web languages to contribute; users can edit the content of wiki pages using an included edit bar (word-processing type) and complete structured data using forms.

The first version of the wiki engine dates back to 2002, it benefits from a major update every 6 months.

A customizable collaborative tool

Follow only the pages you care about and receive email notifications when they change
Choose your interface language
Customize the skin of the wiki visible only to you
Simply connect the pages together by creating links
Hierarchize articles with categories, namespaces, sub-pages, semantic properties (requires extension MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki)

What you can do with MediaWiki

Stay informed of the latest changes

MediaWiki offers many dynamic dashboards by default

Latest changes made to the wiki
Last created pages
Contributions made by such user
Last files imported

And many statistics

Number of users
Most popular pages
Longest, shortest pages
Number of content pages...

Consult the different versions of a page or an imported file

View the history of the different versions of each page
Undo unwanted changes with one click
Simply display the differences between two versions of the same page
Upload, classify, archive the imported files and consult their different - versions (see the Electronic Document Management (EDM) with MediaWiki)

Advantages of a wiki with MediaWiki

Web hosting, accessible by any connected device regardless of operating system
Multilingual and multi-user, viewable and editable by any authorized person
Editable appearance and customizable globally or for each user
Fine management of user editing rights
Use as mapping software with the Maps extension
Debates on the content of each page on its dedicated discussion page
Electronic document management (EDM) (a document here means an imported file and not an article written directly on the wiki)
Built-in powerful search engine which can take into account diacritical characters (é, ç, à...) thanks to the installation of an additional extension
Automatic creation of a table of contents at the top of the page according to the sections of an article
and many others...discover all features of MediaWiki

MediaWiki training