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2.1

Use Cases

MediaWiki has many useful features. These are especially worthy of mention IMHO

• Skins - individual layout per user is also included
• Watchlist of pages
• History of related changes
• Easy editing
• Section-based editing
• Templates
• Easy to create your own extensions (Custom Tags)
• Multilanguage support
• Database-driven (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• RSS, RDF
• Different rights (Permissions)
• Full text search
• Word-extension linking, e.g. e.g. [[Reto]]s Website
• etc.

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See also:

• meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_feature_list↑
• meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ↑

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