MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki engine, powering wikipedia.org.
But, it is difficult to edit! Over time, we expect WYSIWYG editors to become more powerful, but in the meantime, MediaWiki relies on WikiText to edit.
Editing MediaWiki
WikiText
Templates
WikiText cheat sheet
WikiText reference card
Images
Day countdown
{{#expr: 16-{{CURRENTDAY}}}}
Doesn't support changing "Days" to "Day" when the count is 1), but it works
{{#expr: 16-{{CURRENTDAY}}}}
Doesn't support changing "Days" to "Day" when the count is 1), but it works
Links
External Image
[[Image:Empirecraft-logo.png|link=http://in.ec.hithere.com/in21.html?f=7007700016690|center]]
[[File:Evonypedia_editors_group.png|link=http://tgn.ly/join-evonypedia-editors-group|Join the Evonypedia Editors Group]]
Special Pages
Change homepage
/MediaWiki:Mainpage
Special pages
/Special:SpecialPages
See all template pages
/Special:AllPages
Choose Namespace: Template
Script
Check if signed in
global $wgUser;
if ($wgUser->isLoggedIn())
...
WYSIWYG
wikia.com uses CKEditor for in-place editing
See
Semantic
Have you seen the Semantic MediaWiki?http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
A collection of mediawiki plugins for allowing semantic annotations.
Ajax
It is possible to use ajax to load only the content when navigating the wiki, like gmail
See
Single MediaWiki powering many wikis
Rewrite subdomains to a central path with subfolders for every wiki
Use symbolic links on Linux (junctions on Windows)
All shared modules use symbolic links