YK: Chapter 1: About MediaWiki

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MediaWiki is an open-source wiki engine originally developed for use on Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is still by far the best-known use of it. But MediaWiki is also in use on tens of thousands of wikis around the world — it’s almost certainly the world’s most popular wiki software. It’s also most likely the world’s most powerful wiki software, although that statement will require more justification — hopefully this book will provide suitable proof.

In this chapter, we’ll start with some of the non-technical aspects of MediaWiki.