This page is still largely in progress.

MediaWiki is the software that powers websites like Wikipedia and, more modestly, various wikis that we run or where we collaborate.

Unless you care about the underlying technical details, there is little to know about MediaWiki, but that it is managed by Wikimedia, a foundation that maintain and develop the work.

If you care, read on.

Principle

This is a long process that dispatch data back and forth from the database and format the output to the screen.

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