# MediaWiki

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/mediawiki
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/mediawiki.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/mediawiki/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://mediawiki.org
- **Slug:** mediawiki
- **Categories:** collaboration-productivity, customer-support-cx-software

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The only open-source wiki engine proven to scale to the world's largest information repository with multi-language and high-concurrency support.
Source: Brand's website (https://mediawiki.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki engine that powers Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. It is designed to handle extremely high traffic and large amounts of content while remaining extensible and multilingual. Managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is written in PHP and primarily uses the MySQL/MariaDB database backend.
Source: Brand's website (https://mediawiki.org) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - MediaWiki engine
  - VisualEditor
  - Parsoid
  - various extensions and skins.
Source: Brand's website (https://mediawiki.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free
Source: Brand's website (https://mediawiki.org) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Non-profits, enterprise internal documentation, fan communities, research institutions.
Source: Brand's website (https://mediawiki.org) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Confluence (Atlassian)
  - DokuWiki
  - Wiki.js
  - Notion
Source: Brand's website (https://mediawiki.org) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.