MediaWiki
As its name suggests, MediaWiki is the web engine that empowers the famous Wikipedia online open encyclopedia. It is currently open source software and anyone can download and install it on their local server. The application can also be used as a CMS (Content Management Software), and large companies such as Novell have found it to be a reliable solution. Contrary to WordPress, MediaWiki does not come with a prewritten .htaccess file for prettying up URLs. Instead, the official MediaWiki website offers a wide variety of methods, which are all documented in the form of wiki articles. Webmasters can implement solutions that go as far as modifying the main Apache configuration file. However, there are simpler solutions that require ...
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