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MediaWiki is a free and open source wiki software, used to power wiki websites such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Commons, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others. It also runs thousands of other websites.It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database.

The first version of the software was deployed to serve the needs of the Wikipedia encyclopedia in 2002.Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki. The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second. Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and ddatabase replication has been a major concern for developers.

The software is highly customizable, with more than 700 configuration settings and more than 1,800 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed On Wikipedia alone, more than 1000 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing.

It has also been deployed by some companies as an internal knowledge management and some educators have assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects.

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