MediaWiki
E107967
MediaWiki is a free, open-source wiki software platform designed for collaborative editing of web pages, best known for powering Wikipedia and many other wikis.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MediaWiki canonical | 79 |
| MediaWiki API | 3 |
| MediaWiki (modified) | 1 |
| MediaWiki core | 1 |
| MediaWiki developer community | 1 |
| MediaWiki development | 1 |
| MediaWiki extensions | 1 |
| MediaWiki software | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T920876 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MediaWiki Context triple: [Wikipedia, softwareUsed, MediaWiki]
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A.
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki.org is the official website and documentation hub for the MediaWiki software, providing technical resources, manuals, and community collaboration for users and developers.
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B.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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C.
Wikia
Wikia is a for-profit, community-driven wiki hosting platform (now known as Fandom) that provides free tools for fans to create and manage collaborative encyclopedias on their favorite topics.
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D.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a free, collaboratively curated online repository of images, audio, video, and other media files that can be used across Wikimedia projects and beyond.
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E.
Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that provides a free, collaborative platform for creating and using educational resources and learning materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MediaWiki Target entity description: MediaWiki is a free, open-source wiki software platform designed for collaborative editing of web pages, best known for powering Wikipedia and many other wikis.
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A.
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki.org is the official website and documentation hub for the MediaWiki software, providing technical resources, manuals, and community collaboration for users and developers.
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B.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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C.
Wikia
Wikia is a for-profit, community-driven wiki hosting platform (now known as Fandom) that provides free tools for fans to create and manage collaborative encyclopedias on their favorite topics.
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D.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a free, collaboratively curated online repository of images, audio, video, and other media files that can be used across Wikimedia projects and beyond.
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E.
Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that provides a free, collaborative platform for creating and using educational resources and learning materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (92)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free software
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ web application ⓘ wiki software ⓘ |
| developer | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
GPL-2.0-or-later ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| originalDeveloper |
Lee Daniel Crocker
ⓘ
Magnus Manske ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | PHP ⓘ |
| replaces | UseModWiki ⓘ |
| shortDescription | free and open-source wiki software platform powering Wikipedia and many other wikis ⓘ |
| stableReleaseType | long-term support releases ⓘ |
| supportsAccessControl |
IP blocking
ⓘ
page protection ⓘ user blocking ⓘ |
| supportsAPIs |
Action API
ⓘ
REST API ⓘ |
| supportsAuthentication | pluggable authentication mechanisms ⓘ |
| supportsCaching | multiple caching backends ⓘ |
| supportsCategories | page categorization ⓘ |
| supportsCommandLine | maintenance scripts ⓘ |
| supportsContentHandler | multiple content models ⓘ |
| supportsContentTranslation | content translation via extensions ⓘ |
| supportsDiff | visual and text diffs between revisions ⓘ |
| supportsDiscussion | talk pages ⓘ |
| supportsEmailIntegration | email notifications ⓘ |
| supportsExtensionMechanism | MediaWiki extensions ⓘ |
| supportsExtensions |
AbuseFilter
ⓘ
CheckUser ⓘ ConfirmEdit ⓘ ParserFunctions ⓘ Semantic MediaWiki ⓘ VisualEditor ⓘ Wikibase ⓘ |
| supportsImportExport | XML page import and export ⓘ |
| supportsInternationalization | multilingual user interface ⓘ |
| supportsInterwiki | interwiki links ⓘ |
| supportsJobQueue | background job processing ⓘ |
| supportsLanguageLinks | interlanguage links ⓘ |
| supportsLDAP | LDAP authentication via extensions ⓘ |
| supportsLocalization | localization via message files ⓘ |
| supportsLogging | event and error logging ⓘ |
| supportsMarkup |
CSS
ⓘ
HTML ⓘ wikitext ⓘ |
| supportsMobile | mobile-optimized skins ⓘ |
| supportsNamespaces | page namespaces ⓘ |
| supportsOAuth | OAuth-based authentication ⓘ |
| supportsPageDeletion | page deletion and undeletion ⓘ |
| supportsPageMove | page renaming ⓘ |
| supportsPageRedirects | redirect pages ⓘ |
| supportsPageWatchlist | user watchlists ⓘ |
| supportsParser | pluggable parsers ⓘ |
| supportsRateLimiting | edit rate limits ⓘ |
| supportsResourceLoader | client-side asset loading system ⓘ |
| supportsSAML | SAML-based single sign-on via extensions ⓘ |
| supportsSearch | full-text search ⓘ |
| supportsSitemaps | XML sitemaps ⓘ |
| supportsSkins | MediaWiki skins ⓘ |
| supportsSpamPrevention | spam filters ⓘ |
| supportsSubpages | subpage hierarchy in some namespaces ⓘ |
| supportsSyndication |
Atom feeds
ⓘ
RSS feeds ⓘ |
| supportsTemplates | template system ⓘ |
| supportsTransclusion | page transclusion ⓘ |
| supportsUploads | file uploads ⓘ |
| supportsUserPreferences | per-user settings ⓘ |
| supportsUserRegistration | account creation ⓘ |
| supportsUserRights | user groups and permissions ⓘ |
| supportsVersionControl | page revision history ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Wikibooks
ⓘ
Wikidata ⓘ Wikimedia Commons ⓘ Wikinews ⓘ Wikipedia ⓘ Wikiquote ⓘ Wikisource ⓘ Wikiversity ⓘ Wikivoyage ⓘ Wiktionary ⓘ thousands of third-party wikis ⓘ |
| usesDatabase |
MariaDB
ⓘ
SQL Server ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL ⓘ Oracle Database ⓘ PostgreSQL ⓘ SQLite ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mediawiki.org/ ⓘ |
| writtenIn | PHP ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: MediaWiki Description of subject: MediaWiki is a free, open-source wiki software platform designed for collaborative editing of web pages, best known for powering Wikipedia and many other wikis.
Referenced by (88)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MediaWiki extensions
this entity surface form:
MediaWiki API
this entity surface form:
MediaWiki development
this entity surface form:
MediaWiki developer community
this entity surface form:
MediaWiki (modified)
subject surface form:
Help (Wikimedia Commons namespace)
this entity surface form:
MediaWiki software