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What is Mediawiki?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Mediawiki is a free wiki engine for wikis. Developed under the GNU Free Documentation License, it is used by the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, and Wikinews.

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