{"id":24110,"key":"MediaWiki","title":"MediaWiki","latest":{"id":1206284,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T19:51:23Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"'''[http://mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]''' is the wiki software{{w|List of wiki software}} that powers Appropedia, as well as [[Wikipedia]], other Wikimedia Foundation{{w|Wikimedia Foundation}} projects, and many other wikis across the internet.\n\n== Extensions ==\n\nMediaWiki is written primarily in the PHP{{w|PHP}} scripting language. A large number of [[Mw:Manual:Extensions|extensions]] are available, which add more functions to a MediaWiki wiki. See [[Special:Version]] for the list of extensions currently installed on {{SITENAME}}.\n\n== MediaWiki namespace ==\n\nMediaWiki is also a standard namespace{{w|WP:NAMESPACE}} prefix on all MediaWiki wikis by default, including Appropedia. The MediaWiki namespace contains pages that define many user interface elements. For example, [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] contains CSS{{w|Cascading Style Sheets}} style classes that control the appearance of many templates on Appropedia.\n\nOnly users who are [[Appropedia:Administrators|administrators]] can edit pages in the MediaWiki namespace.\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Mw:|Official site]]\n* [[mw:Manual:Contents]] - extensive documentation on MediaWiki\n* [[wikipedia:WP:EIW#MediaWiki]] - Links to pages about MediaWiki in the Editor's index to Wikipedia\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Open source software]]\n[[Category:Wikis]]"}