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MediaWiki is licensed under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPLv2 GPLv2] license and can run on multiple platforms. It is free software that can be modified by anyone for any purpose, and it generally tends towards open source data formats, and its licensing terms were chosen to reflect this. |
MediaWiki is licensed under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPLv2 GPLv2] license and can run on multiple platforms. It is free software that can be modified by anyone for any purpose, and it generally tends towards open source data formats, and its licensing terms were chosen to reflect this. |
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The most well known MediaWiki wiki would be the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s flagship wiki, [[Wikipedia]], from which other projects such as [[ |
The most well known MediaWiki wiki would be the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s flagship wiki, [[Wikipedia]], from which other projects such as [[Wiktionary]], [[Wikinews]], and [[Wikibooks]] were designed as spinoffs. MediaWiki is also used by many companies for writing help documentation, used by [[Wikia]] (in a heavily modified format) to host wikis of all varieties, and can be used by practically anyone to host a wiki for any purpose one can dream up. |
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{{examples|MediaWiki is the [[Trope Namer]] for}} |
{{examples|MediaWiki is the [[Trope Namer]] for}} |
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