MediaWiki Software

MediaWiki is an free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scaleable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database.

When a user submits an edit to a page, MediaWiki writes it to the database, but without deleting the previous versions of the page, thus allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming. MediaWiki can manage image and multimedia files, too, which are stored in the filesystem. For large wikis with lots of users, MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with Squid proxy server software.

It allows site owners to develop and manage online libraries or encyclopedia websites. The software is powerful, scalable and a feature-rich wiki kind implementation. It uses PHP to process and display information stored in mySQL database.

You can use and install MediaWiki for your website or blog with Host Color's Max, Mega or Multi Domain Plans.

MediaWiki can be customized in several ways or you may thus contribute your own skins, extensions and patches.