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MediaWiki is a powerful, free, and open-source wiki software and collaboration platform, originally developed by Magnus Manske for Wikipedia on January 25, 2002, and further enhanced by Lee Daniel Crocker. Its ongoing development is coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation. As a robust tool for collecting and organizing knowledge, MediaWiki powers Wikipedia, the MediaWiki website itself, and most other Wikimedia Foundation sites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, Meta-Wiki, and Wikidata. Beyond Wikimedia, it is widely adopted as a knowledge management and content management system by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organizations worldwide, with notable internal installations like Intellipedia and Diplopedia, and external usage on sites such as Fandom and wikiHow. Users consistently rate it highly, achieving a 4.7 average from 23.8K reviews, underscoring its market position as a leading solution for documentation and collaborative knowledge sharing.