MediaWiki 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

MediaWiki

4.5

(8)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a collaboration and documentation platform. It is used by many websites and organizations, including Wikipedia. MediaWiki helps collect and organize knowledge to make it available to people.

The software offers a range of features. It is multilingual, free, and open, allowing for customization. MediaWiki is also reliable and available at no cost. Users can download, install, and configure the software, as well as add functionality through extensions. Professional development and consulting services are available for additional support.

Whether building a new website, documenting an organization's knowledge, or powering a large-scale project, MediaWiki provides the necessary tools and features. Its community-driven approach ensures the software remains robust, secure, and adaptable to various use cases. With MediaWiki, users can unlock the power of collaborative knowledge sharing and management.

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MediaWiki Pricing and Plans

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MediaWiki Features

Popular features found in Knowledge Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Catalog Management
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Content Management
Data Import/Export
Discussions/Forums
Document Management
Self Service Portal
Text Editing
More features of MediaWiki
Knowledge Base Management

MediaWiki User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

63%

25%

13%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

3.8

Functionality

4.4

Have you used MediaWiki and would like to share your experience with others?

Hendy I.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Many features, flexible, but steep learning curve

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's open source, has a lot of features out-of-the-box, and many plugins. It powers Wikipedia so it is secure and scalable.

Cons:

It is hard to use for most people, and the wiki structure needs to be learned for many.

Verified

Reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Great open source option for documentation and process management

Despite the maintenance work it was even more refreshing to keep the tool in-house and on-premise. It made employees realize the importance of the tool, generating greater involvement of the team as a whole. The tool allowed us to better understand our day-to-day and generate more efficient and dynamic processes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is built on a very simple and popular stack known as LAMPhp and practically anyone in the IT area with internet knowledge will find it easy to install and manage the application.

Cons:

Despite being simple and straightforward in the end, it was not without maintenance processes such as updating and backup, which ended up taking a certain amount of time from the IT team.

Reasons for choosing MediaWiki

The simple fact that we wouldn't need to add any plugin to apply content versioning management.

Reasons for switching to MediaWiki

Mediawiki had version management in its heart, the others always needed either more elaborate training to explain the procedure or some plugin to be complemented and wikimedia was the only one that despite also allowing expansions had everything we needed. It was just natural

Verified

Reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Wiki for everyone

My overall experience has been great. Especially with smaller teams who need to manage documentation with smaller or no budgets. Having this available is huge for them.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to just spin up a wiki for free that is opened source is extremely beneficial for these trying times.

Cons:

The management and it being an open sourced product will introduce un expected changes or overhead. Even though it is expected it still exists.

Zoltan T.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

My Wiki review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I worked 5+ years with MW. It has a clean interface, fast appearance, with good transparency.

Cons:

The editor may seem a bit complicated at first glance, but it's easy to learn.

Lilian K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

A Great Solution For Knowledge Management

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the knowledge management features It handles content management well and also comes with collaboration capabilities.

Cons:

No negative issues with MediaWiki. It works well.

Vincent C.

Verified reviewer

Internet

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2023

Le numéro un du wiki

MediaWiki permet de gérer des bases de connaissance complète. Néanmoins, le vocabulaire "wiki" comme les espaces de noms par exemple pourrait en rebuter certains. C'est un bon outil mais pas forcément pour tous les projets. Je le recommande si vous avez beaucoup de contenu à partager ou besoin de fonctionnalités avancées.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

MediaWiki est connu, très utilisé car Wikipedia repose dessus. Il permet de gérer de grandes bases de connaissances de façon efficace et performante. L'intégration d'images et autres médias est facile et l'outil est évolutif grâce à des extensions et des thèmes. Un grand avantage aussi, c'est sa gratuité et sa facilité d'installation.

Cons:

Ce logiciel est assez lourd. Pour une petite base de connaissance, il vaut mieux privilégier DokuWiki par exemple. Il es

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Reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Great piece of software, available for free.

I've enjoyed using it. It's a nice introduction to wiki software, but I think Confluence wins it for me.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's free to use, the best in class for a long time. It's super easy to get up to speed with using it since it's been around for so long. Lots of tutorials online.

Cons:

They really haven't put a lot of effort into upgrading the base software. It seems a little clunky and dated off the bat.

Emmanuel D.

Verified reviewer

Retail

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

Logiciel très puissant

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

C'est parfait pour ce qu'il propose. Flexible et simple à utiliser avec une bonne qualité et très efficace pour faciliter la collecte et l'organisation des informations. Très simple à personnaliser. Je le recommande

Cons:

Un très bon logiciel et très simple à utiliser mais dommage la version gratuite n'est pas autorisé et indisponible pour tout pays également.

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