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History

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:

  • Release of version 1.0 in 2003
  • Introduction of the API in 2007
  • Launch of VisualEditor in 2013
  • 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.