MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU
MediaWiki is free server-based software which is 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, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database.
- Powerful wiki originally written for use in wikipedia, and now used by many ompanies for internal knowledge management and as a content management system.
- With strong emphasis on multilingualism, its user interface is available in more than 100 languages.
- One of the coolest feautures of mediawiki is supports of free-links for pages instead of CamelCase (page link "World Wide Web" instead of WorldWideWeb).
- As the name suggests - it really deals intelligently with media file with richest functionalities for images and thumbnails.
- Intelligent features like editing subsection of a page (for a long page), rich content (like support for latex - if you want to render mathematical formulas, plotting, musical scores etc) makes it the wiki of choice.
- Though no WYSWIG editor till date
