How to create MediaWiki website

If you decided to create your own web encyclopedia, online journal or blog, then MediaWiki application can be the best solution for it. MediaWiki can be downloaded absolutely for free and installation process is quick and easy. You don't need any specific knowledge or education to launch your own wiki website.

Mediawiki is popular software among webmasters, because of its simple, free usage as well as there are a lot extensions that allows to create professional websites and the software is translated into many languages. So today we may visit thousands websites made by wiki technology that are quite famous.

This article describes installation process of MediaWiki in details as well as how to create articles, use templates and install additional extensions. If you have additional information or some questions, feel free to post your comments at special topic at our forum.

About MediaWiki
Mediawiki — a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now also used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wiki websites.