What is MediaWiki used for?

MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL. Pages use MediaWiki’s wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of HTML or CSS can edit them easily.

What markup does MediaWiki use?

The MediaWiki markup language (commonly referred to within the MediaWiki community as wikitext, though this usage is ambiguous within the larger wiki community) uses sometimes paired non-textual ASCII characters to indicate to the parser how the editor wishes an item or section of text to be displayed.

What code does fandom use?

Wikitext is the main markup language used to format content on Fandom.

What language is MediaWiki?

PHP –
PHP – the primary language that MediaWiki was originally written in, and which most new code in MediaWiki uses. JavaScript – language used for many important components of MediaWiki, notably VisualEditor, Parsoid, and all Gadgets, not to mention most code delivered to the browser via ResourceLoader for execution.

Is MediaWiki any good?

MediaWiki is a great piece of software, but difficult. Development is principally aimed at Wikimedia servers, which is a pretty high-end configuration (multiple Web servers, multiple roll-over databases, array of reverse cache squid servers, lots of extra PHP caching engines).

Is MediaWiki secure?

Extensions made by prominent members of the MediaWiki development community are usually quite safe. Similarly any extension used on a wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation has probably been looked at carefully, and is probably safe (There are of course no guarantees).

How do I add comments in MediaWiki?

Download and place the file(s) in a directory called Comments in your extensions/ folder. Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings. php : wfLoadExtension( ‘Comments’ );

Does Fandom show your IP?

Unless someone is editing logged out, Fandom will not expose IPs. However, there are times when we will look up an IP to help us combat bad behaviour. For example, if someone is causing damage to a wiki, staff are able to look up their IP in order to block it and stop them vandalizing.

Does fandom use MediaWiki?

Fandom uses MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software used by Wikipedia. Fandom, Inc. derives its income from advertising and sold content, publishing most user-provided text under copyleft licenses.