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MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software platform originally developed for [[Wikipedia]] by [[Magnus Manske]] and improved by [[Lee Daniel Crocker]]. It was first released in '''January 2002''' under the name "Phase III". | MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software platform originally developed for [[Wikipedia]] by [[Magnus Manske]] and improved by [[Lee Daniel Crocker]]. It was first released in '''January 2002''' under the name "Phase III". | ||
====3. Could Joseph Smith have gotten the names Moroni and Cumorah from local American whalers?==== | |||
[[File:Comoros Map Better.png|thumb|center|500px|<small>'''Figure 3.''' Carmack's caption reads: "''Detail of inset map, 'Comoro the Highest<br> Island', from'' A Chart of the Inner Passage between the Coast of Africa and the<br> Isle of Madagascar, from Mr. D’Anville with Several Additions. ''In'' The Oriental Pilot ''<br>(1778) by R. Sayer and J. Bennett. Courtesy the Map Section at the National<br> Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia.''"</small>]] | [[File:Comoros Map Better.png|thumb|center|500px|<small>'''Figure 3.''' Carmack's caption reads: "''Detail of inset map, 'Comoro the Highest<br> Island', from'' A Chart of the Inner Passage between the Coast of Africa and the<br> Isle of Madagascar, from Mr. D’Anville with Several Additions. ''In'' The Oriental Pilot ''<br>(1778) by R. Sayer and J. Bennett. Courtesy the Map Section at the National<br> Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia.''"</small>]] | ||
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* Launch of [[VisualEditor]] in 2013 | * Launch of [[VisualEditor]] in 2013 | ||
* Implementation of modern [[REST API]] in 2019 | * Implementation of modern [[REST API]] in 2019 | ||
MediaWiki is written primarily in '''PHP''' and stores content in a relational database such as [[MySQL]], [[PostgreSQL]], or [[SQLite]]. | MediaWiki is written primarily in '''PHP''' and stores content in a relational database such as [[MySQL]], [[PostgreSQL]], or [[SQLite]]. | ||
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MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software platform originally developed for Wikipedia by Magnus Manske and improved by Lee Daniel Crocker. It was first released in January 2002 under the name "Phase III".

The software was redesigned in 2002 to handle the growing demands of Wikipedia, which had become one of the most popular websites on the internet. In July 2013, MediaWiki was used by more than 50 million websites worldwide.
Key milestones include:
MediaWiki is written primarily in PHP and stores content in a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.

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