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MediaWiki is a [[free software]] [[wiki]] engine, licensed under the [[GNU General Public License]], or GPL. The software was originally created to power [[Wikipedia]], and, as it is [[free software]], is now used to power many other sites of varying size, including [[CreationWiki]], Conservapedia, the various projects of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], and [[Jimmy Wales]]'s [[for-profit company]], [[Wikia]], as well as being applied in small wikis for a single group. A notably different use of the MediaWiki software is by the company [[Novell]], which uses it to power several of its high-traffic websites, which are only editable by a select group, not the general public. As Wikipedia is an extremely high-traffic website, MediaWiki is highly optimized for performance.

'''MediaWiki''' is a [[free software]] [[wiki]] engine, licensed under the [[GNU General Public License]], or GPL. The software was originally created to power [[Wikipedia]], and, as it is [[free software]], is now used to power many other sites of varying size, including [[CreationWiki]], Conservapedia, the various projects of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], and [[Jimmy Wales]]'s [[for-profit company]], [[Wikia]], as well as being applied in small wikis for a single group. A notably different use of the MediaWiki software is by the company [[Novell]], which uses it to power several of its high-traffic websites, which are only editable by a select group, not the general public. As Wikipedia is an extremely high-traffic website, MediaWiki is highly optimized for performance.

==Codebase==

==Codebase==

==WYSIWIG editing==

==WYSIWIG editing==

Like many wikis, MediaWiki has a semi-[[WYSIWIG]] (an acronym for '''W'''hat '''Y'''ou '''S'''ee '''I'''s '''W'''hat '''Y'''ou '''G'''et) language for the editing of the content on the sites it powers, allowing users who do no know [[HTML]] to relatively easily generate web content of high technological quality.

Like many wikis, MediaWiki has a semi-[[WYSIWIG]] (an acronym for '''W'''hat '''Y'''ou '''S'''ee '''I'''s '''W'''hat '''Y'''ou '''G'''et) language for the editing of the content on the sites it powers, allowing users who do not know [[HTML]] to relatively easily generate web content of high technological quality.

==Customizable interface==

==Customizable interface==