Help:MediaWiki

MediaWiki&trade; is the software which runs all of the wikis on Wikia.

Originally created for Wikipedia, MediaWiki is an open source PHP-based wiki engine now used to run thousands of sites.

Wikia is currently running on MediaWiki version. Please visit MediaWiki 1.12 to report any problems with the ongoing upgrade.

See the MediaWiki feature list for features of this software.

See also: MediaWiki namespace and Wikipedia's article on MediaWiki.