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0 pointsload5y ago0 comments

I mean, I appreciate the effort put into building this, but external tools like AWB, and userscripts/gadgets (plus a host of other goodies) can't be accessed over globally if it's on a completely different software. Almost every wiki on the net uses MediaWiki for good reason.

I will be happy if this Wiki.js platform does have compatibility with these features, though.

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wutwutwutwut5y ago

I guess the same reasoning would apply to WordPress, PHP and MySQL then (user scripts, penetration etc). Would that be your first choice when setting up a new web page?

eitland5y ago

> Almost every wiki on the net uses MediaWiki for good reason.

It is unclear to ne if you refer to statistics or gut feeling here. Would you mind clarifying?

loadOP5y ago

By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes:

- Wikimedia

- FANDOM

- Gamepedia

- Miraheze

FANDOM is the most massive wiki farm with over 360,000+ (as of 2016) wikis[1], which I'd give at lowest an estimate of 60% of the total number of wikis on the net, and is 88th on the Alexa rankings.[2] FANDOM is a wiki powerhouse, and you bet it uses MediaWiki.

Excluding WikiHow, I have never seen a wiki not use MediaWiki. As one of the guys that hops across many different wikis and wiki farms doing automated work, I cannot stress this enough.

[1] Brandon Rhea, FANDOM VP of Growth https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&... (dated June 14, 2016)

[2] Alexa.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic (dated ~21 July 2020)

bawolff5y ago

> Excluding WikiHow

WikiHow is using mediawiki (or at least a fork of it) https://src.wikihow.com/

But there certainly exist other wikis and wiki-like projects that dont. MDN and OWASP wiki are prominent examples that moved away from mediawiki. I think mediawiki has most of the mass-collabotation market, but there is much more competition in the open-source project documentation niche (which people often use wikis for) and corporate knowledge base market.

P.s. for the interested, mediawiki has statistics at https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count (opt-in) and https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page (based on web crawling)

iamacyborg5y ago

Gamepedia was bought by Fandom too, FYI.

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iamacyborg5y ago

Stats, clearly.

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wutwutwutwut5y ago

I guess the same reasoning would apply to WordPress, PHP and MySQL then (user scripts, penetration etc). Would that be your first choice when setting up a new web page?

eitland5y ago

> Almost every wiki on the net uses MediaWiki for good reason.

It is unclear to ne if you refer to statistics or gut feeling here. Would you mind clarifying?

loadOP5y ago

By 'MediaWiki' I'm referring to the wikis and wiki farms that use MediaWiki or a variant of it. This includes:

- Wikimedia

- FANDOM

- Gamepedia

- Miraheze

Excluding WikiHow, I have never seen a wiki not use MediaWiki. As one of the guys that hops across many different wikis and wiki farms doing automated work, I cannot stress this enough.

[1] Brandon Rhea, FANDOM VP of Growth https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Choosing_Fandom?diff=next&... (dated June 14, 2016)

[2] Alexa.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fandom.com#section_traffic (dated ~21 July 2020)

bawolff5y ago

> Excluding WikiHow

WikiHow is using mediawiki (or at least a fork of it) https://src.wikihow.com/

P.s. for the interested, mediawiki has statistics at https://pingback.wmflabs.org/#unique-wiki-count (opt-in) and https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Main_Page (based on web crawling)

iamacyborg5y ago

Gamepedia was bought by Fandom too, FYI.

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iamacyborg5y ago

Stats, clearly.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse