Magnus Manske
MediaWiki was originally developed by Magnus Manske and improved by Lee Daniel Crocker. Its development has since then been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation. MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language and stores all text content into a database.

What language is MediaWiki written?

PHP
MediaWiki/Programming languages

Who can edit protected Wikipedia pages?

Extended confirmed protection, also known as 30/500 protection, only allows edits by editors with the extended confirmed user access level, granted automatically to registered users with at least 30 days’ tenure and 500 edits.

How to create your own wiki with MediaWiki?

Double click to run the Mediawiki module. Choose Language and click Next. It will ask for WAMP Stack folder location. Fill in the details: Login name – This will be used to log into the wiki (default password will be database password) Real name – not necessary Email address – Upon clicking Next, give your wiki a great name.

What are the advantages of using MediaWiki?

Advantages of MediaWiki Long-term maintenance and support: MediaWiki development is backed by an organization with an annual budget in excess of 27 million dollars . There is no need to worry that in the foreseeable future the codebase will be completely abandoned by its developers and become unmaintained.

How to revert edit on MediaWiki?

Open the page history The page history stores all edits made to the article.

How to use MediaWiki?

Read the MediaWiki API documentation. It is located at ‘api.php’ in the same directory as the usual index.php.