Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers (Wikimedia sites peak in the 50000+ requests per second range as of January 2008).While quite usable on smaller sites, you may find you have to "roll your own" local documentation.
MediaWiki is using a "continuous integration" development model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.
The MediaWiki software was written by:
- Lee Daniel Crocker
- Magnus Manske
- Jan Hidders
- Brion Vibber
- Axel Boldt
- Geoffrey T. Dairiki
- Tomasz Wegrzanowski
- Erik Moeller
- Tim Starling
- Gabriel Wicke
- Ashar Voultoiz
- Evan Prodromou
- Domas Mituzas
- Rob Church
- Jens Frank
- Several others
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