ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ:MediaWiki
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MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki application. It was originally developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and runs on many websites, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.[3] It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database.
ਅਸਲ ਲੇਖਕ | Magnus Manske, Lee Daniel Crocker |
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ਉੱਨਤਕਾਰ | Wikimedia Foundation and MediaWiki volunteers |
ਪਹਿਲਾ ਜਾਰੀਕਰਨ | ਜਨਵਰੀ 25, 2002; 22 ਸਾਲ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ (2002-01-25) |
ਪ੍ਰੋਗਰਾਮਿੰਗ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ | PHP |
ਆਪਰੇਟਿੰਗ ਸਿਸਟਮ | Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, NetWare |
ਅਕਾਰ | ~22.9 MB |
ਉਪਲੱਬਧ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ | 240[1] ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ |
ਕਿਸਮ | Wiki |
ਲਸੰਸ | GPLv2+[2] |
ਵੈੱਬਸਾਈਟ | mediawiki |
The first version of the software was deployed to serve the needs of the Wikipedia encyclopedia in 2002.[4] Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki.[5] The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second.[5][6] Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has been a major concern for developers.
The software has more than 800 configuration settings[7] and more than 2,000 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed.[8] On Wikipedia alone, more than 1000 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing.[9]
It has also been deployed by some companies as an internal knowledge management system,[10] and some educators have assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects.[11]