MediaWiki

Description

The MediaWiki software is used by tens of thousands of websites and thousands of companies and organizations. It powers Wikipedia and also this website. MediaWiki helps you collect and organize knowledge and make it available to people. It’s powerful, multilingual, free and open, extensible, customizable, reliable, and free of charge.

Types of use

·   Collaboration

·   Storage

·   Content Development

Indicative use in the classroom

Students may be engaged in developing a MediaWiki page for a school project, and gather, organise and present information relevant to a specific school subject and topic

Open access

·   Free access: limitations for free use such as SQL queries per day, memory quota, disk allocation, etc.

·   Paid plans: fewer limitations to SQL queries and memory and disk allocation