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	~~This~~ is a ~~sample~~ page.		Yes. MediaWiki is a CMS, but it is a very specialized one. It is best known as the software behind Wikipedia.

			### Why do people use MediaWiki?

			MediaWiki is designed primarily for knowledge bases, documentation, encyclopedias, and collaborative websites, rather than normal business websites.

			Its biggest strengths are:

			* Collaborative editing — many users can create and edit articles.
			* Revision history — every change is recorded, so you can see who changed what and revert changes.
			* User permissions — administrators can control who can edit, create pages, upload files, etc.
			* Huge-scale content — it can handle tens of thousands or millions of pages.
			* Categories and internal linking — excellent for organizing large amounts of related information.
			* Templates — reusable structures can be created for pages.
			* Extensions — there are many extensions for adding functionality.
			* Discussion/history features — useful for communities and documentation projects.
			* Open source and free — no CMS licensing cost.

			For example, if you're building:

			> "A knowledge base containing 50,000 articles about historical documents, with multiple researchers editing and reviewing them"

			MediaWiki makes a lot of sense.

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/JkcCzGxLZT8hoUXMj7Cmih0V8C1GFUIO04LBVZ6wO6q4sFw_n8wPaxkh1F03ZcNErHUnSYWO15cMPixUW8c4B8QKg9FYXulyDMwP1lRq7zFdkKB9VKlFSvCB4WOluIGc0Jb1DOSD1-cjhTtKyz5ly8ZTWaZDucepQH4P7JGztSL1mb5JgqRHOdnUFM0c6iZA?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/VjtIcc79FYRCH7825rHtZc_4VmGIGyHFOA1qaXGjojZ2wP550OeaSo3kPTA7YtF22ukN0y_wmGyS1cjZ161tvL34_8BiZ_8BUMDbmoO1V2znn9ZAd2ZBIgs_8nlQQxMZMjYeGBLA8p49At9GJsvqFSLMSA9VFhwHcHUZsReViX84CCi4Q3J52VuE9Nj3pK_s?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/LoR5ldWMD7BeoRjPQFTR4ENrYQ_nPmpgE6HBD4DB5CihIb_iatyF24Ar7yvRIY1Dtt3rbtxfkic2cj42YAf4FF3f_8JxSS-60gLeBX9TYm5jNkH4wqiQon4Zp_URt93CoQzfl-a3M9tezzeCQpHSqM3B7NTIdHzt3dGVxRhExxiEW-WA-JDS-SvxIvq87fwb?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/CNhEV2aXy5zscFa-PjpDVReTRhjtVntEFW3Hs5yeK63Mjta3O5-W_yiPgxTT5F-CBE3OpODYl5VNeGlGWss15KYEMirCOjcHT7S_hCO4dFin2liwxQ7WZczVkESs89CdieShPvGN_Rbk7vLmu6fidFkq9XuueWRIZj9g8k2ZUxIeeQ35lprZB3n6Hy2We9ts?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/p7FFOt2E1rVX6WriYRsFAZlvESKFPSCqFTL7URcRlEwkEbb1b0deVEN0mCvc4EtQOm0crNUGLUQIJwclsgY4huoLo8ergV2eGalhvVSKJIABX86NhRwK2c9SbOJX_Txwi0Zw7PvhXAtWtDrd4a8tHl-lXLWXxR0I1uv-1ZSx5DJ0AuewPT2o6CxmgxR-teSB?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/zOjVXnZZD_yKebl_xSFwkaNTkygrTm96roEGTI9OEbkLsIUfl4ZEzY6LqBAeIKHufLjz3gbhlx9aHn6H81b2NdVCKR-seB8gBYEo43BtoKxxQQpGF8Hv0nax5r0jqJgjFdhNkO0uqzHuoEcCzOlPOr476ThRNhyRypd54bPOwbwm2vWHRADj0cguCYr2lMI_?purpose=fullsize)

			### But MediaWiki is NOT necessarily the best choice for a normal website

			If someone wants:

			> Company website → Home / About / Services / Blog / Contact

			I would generally not recommend MediaWiki.

			WordPress, for example, is much more suitable because it gives you a better visual editing experience, themes, page builders, plugins, SEO tools, forms, ecommerce, etc.

			### What are the alternatives?

			It depends heavily on what you're building:

			\| CMS \| Best for \| Difficulty \|
			\| ------------- \| --------------------------------------- \| ----------- \|
			\| MediaWiki \| Wikipedia-style knowledge bases \| Medium–High \|
			\| WordPress \| Business websites, blogs, content sites \| Easy–Medium \|
			\| Drupal \| Large/complex content platforms \| High \|
			\| Joomla \| General CMS + portals \| Medium \|
			\| DokuWiki \| Simple documentation/wiki \| Easy–Medium \|
			\| BookStack \| Internal documentation/knowledge bases \| Easy \|
			\| Wiki.js \| Modern knowledge bases/wiki \| Medium \|
			\| Outline \| Modern team documentation \| Easy \|
			\| Ghost \| Publishing/blogging \| Easy \|
			\| Webflow \| Visual marketing websites \| Easy–Medium \|

			### MediaWiki vs modern alternatives

			If your goal is specifically a wiki/knowledge base, I'd look at these:

			1. Wiki.js — probably the most interesting modern alternative

			It's much more modern-looking than traditional MediaWiki and supports Markdown, visual editing, authentication, search, permissions, etc.

			2. BookStack — excellent for internal documentation

			Very straightforward. Its structure is essentially:

			> Shelves → Books → Chapters → Pages

			This works extremely well for company manuals, technical documentation, SOPs, etc.

			3. DokuWiki — lightweight and simple

			Good if you want a relatively small documentation/wiki system without the complexity of MediaWiki.

			4. Outline — excellent modern UX

			Particularly good for teams that want something resembling Notion/Confluence rather than Wikipedia.

			### The important distinction

			Think of it this way:

			MediaWiki
			→ "We have a massive amount of interconnected knowledge and many people need to maintain it."

			WordPress
			→ "We need a website where administrators can easily publish and manage content."

			BookStack / Wiki.js / Outline
			→ "We need a modern documentation/knowledge-base platform."

			So if you're asking because a client currently has a MediaWiki website and wants to redesign/migrate it, tell me what type of website it is and roughly how many pages/articles it has. I can tell you whether MediaWiki should be kept or migrated to WordPress, Wiki.js, BookStack, etc., and what the migration difficulty would be.

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	~~This~~ is a ~~sample~~ page.		Yes. MediaWiki is a CMS, but it is a very specialized one. It is best known as the software behind Wikipedia.

			### Why do people use MediaWiki?

			MediaWiki is designed primarily for knowledge bases, documentation, encyclopedias, and collaborative websites, rather than normal business websites.

			Its biggest strengths are:

			* Collaborative editing — many users can create and edit articles.
			* Revision history — every change is recorded, so you can see who changed what and revert changes.
			* User permissions — administrators can control who can edit, create pages, upload files, etc.
			* Huge-scale content — it can handle tens of thousands or millions of pages.
			* Categories and internal linking — excellent for organizing large amounts of related information.
			* Templates — reusable structures can be created for pages.
			* Extensions — there are many extensions for adding functionality.
			* Discussion/history features — useful for communities and documentation projects.
			* Open source and free — no CMS licensing cost.

			For example, if you're building:

			> "A knowledge base containing 50,000 articles about historical documents, with multiple researchers editing and reviewing them"

			MediaWiki makes a lot of sense.

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/JkcCzGxLZT8hoUXMj7Cmih0V8C1GFUIO04LBVZ6wO6q4sFw_n8wPaxkh1F03ZcNErHUnSYWO15cMPixUW8c4B8QKg9FYXulyDMwP1lRq7zFdkKB9VKlFSvCB4WOluIGc0Jb1DOSD1-cjhTtKyz5ly8ZTWaZDucepQH4P7JGztSL1mb5JgqRHOdnUFM0c6iZA?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/VjtIcc79FYRCH7825rHtZc_4VmGIGyHFOA1qaXGjojZ2wP550OeaSo3kPTA7YtF22ukN0y_wmGyS1cjZ161tvL34_8BiZ_8BUMDbmoO1V2znn9ZAd2ZBIgs_8nlQQxMZMjYeGBLA8p49At9GJsvqFSLMSA9VFhwHcHUZsReViX84CCi4Q3J52VuE9Nj3pK_s?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/LoR5ldWMD7BeoRjPQFTR4ENrYQ_nPmpgE6HBD4DB5CihIb_iatyF24Ar7yvRIY1Dtt3rbtxfkic2cj42YAf4FF3f_8JxSS-60gLeBX9TYm5jNkH4wqiQon4Zp_URt93CoQzfl-a3M9tezzeCQpHSqM3B7NTIdHzt3dGVxRhExxiEW-WA-JDS-SvxIvq87fwb?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/CNhEV2aXy5zscFa-PjpDVReTRhjtVntEFW3Hs5yeK63Mjta3O5-W_yiPgxTT5F-CBE3OpODYl5VNeGlGWss15KYEMirCOjcHT7S_hCO4dFin2liwxQ7WZczVkESs89CdieShPvGN_Rbk7vLmu6fidFkq9XuueWRIZj9g8k2ZUxIeeQ35lprZB3n6Hy2We9ts?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/p7FFOt2E1rVX6WriYRsFAZlvESKFPSCqFTL7URcRlEwkEbb1b0deVEN0mCvc4EtQOm0crNUGLUQIJwclsgY4huoLo8ergV2eGalhvVSKJIABX86NhRwK2c9SbOJX_Txwi0Zw7PvhXAtWtDrd4a8tHl-lXLWXxR0I1uv-1ZSx5DJ0AuewPT2o6CxmgxR-teSB?purpose=fullsize)

			![Image](https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/zOjVXnZZD_yKebl_xSFwkaNTkygrTm96roEGTI9OEbkLsIUfl4ZEzY6LqBAeIKHufLjz3gbhlx9aHn6H81b2NdVCKR-seB8gBYEo43BtoKxxQQpGF8Hv0nax5r0jqJgjFdhNkO0uqzHuoEcCzOlPOr476ThRNhyRypd54bPOwbwm2vWHRADj0cguCYr2lMI_?purpose=fullsize)

			### But MediaWiki is NOT necessarily the best choice for a normal website

			If someone wants:

			> Company website → Home / About / Services / Blog / Contact

			I would generally not recommend MediaWiki.

			WordPress, for example, is much more suitable because it gives you a better visual editing experience, themes, page builders, plugins, SEO tools, forms, ecommerce, etc.

			### What are the alternatives?

			It depends heavily on what you're building:

			\| CMS \| Best for \| Difficulty \|
			\| ------------- \| --------------------------------------- \| ----------- \|
			\| MediaWiki \| Wikipedia-style knowledge bases \| Medium–High \|
			\| WordPress \| Business websites, blogs, content sites \| Easy–Medium \|
			\| Drupal \| Large/complex content platforms \| High \|
			\| Joomla \| General CMS + portals \| Medium \|
			\| DokuWiki \| Simple documentation/wiki \| Easy–Medium \|
			\| BookStack \| Internal documentation/knowledge bases \| Easy \|
			\| Wiki.js \| Modern knowledge bases/wiki \| Medium \|
			\| Outline \| Modern team documentation \| Easy \|
			\| Ghost \| Publishing/blogging \| Easy \|
			\| Webflow \| Visual marketing websites \| Easy–Medium \|

			### MediaWiki vs modern alternatives

			If your goal is specifically a wiki/knowledge base, I'd look at these:

			1. Wiki.js — probably the most interesting modern alternative

			It's much more modern-looking than traditional MediaWiki and supports Markdown, visual editing, authentication, search, permissions, etc.

			2. BookStack — excellent for internal documentation

			Very straightforward. Its structure is essentially:

			> Shelves → Books → Chapters → Pages

			This works extremely well for company manuals, technical documentation, SOPs, etc.

			3. DokuWiki — lightweight and simple

			Good if you want a relatively small documentation/wiki system without the complexity of MediaWiki.

			4. Outline — excellent modern UX

			Particularly good for teams that want something resembling Notion/Confluence rather than Wikipedia.

			### The important distinction

			Think of it this way:

			MediaWiki
			→ "We have a massive amount of interconnected knowledge and many people need to maintain it."

			WordPress
			→ "We need a website where administrators can easily publish and manage content."

			BookStack / Wiki.js / Outline
			→ "We need a modern documentation/knowledge-base platform."

			So if you're asking because a client currently has a MediaWiki website and wants to redesign/migrate it, tell me what type of website it is and roughly how many pages/articles it has. I can tell you whether MediaWiki should be kept or migrated to WordPress, Wiki.js, BookStack, etc., and what the migration difficulty would be.

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