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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 120. Chapters: Free HTML editors, Open source content management systems, PHP-Nuke, Zope, Slash, Drupal, MediaWiki, TkWWW, NetBeans, WordPress, Moodle, Web2py, SeaMonkey, SOBI2, Mambo, Midgard, Joomla, DotNetNuke, Aptana, SilverStripe, Eclipse, TWiki, MindTouch Deki, Plone, Kohana, Zend Framework, Cyn.in, Sakai Project, WorldWideWeb, Movable Type, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, Notepad++, TYPO3, OcPortal, Habari, Umbraco, CMS Made Simple, Phire CMS, Amaya, XOOPS, Textpattern, Plumi, Magnolia, Geeklog, PmWiki, PhpWebSite, TinyMCE, EZ Publish, Squiz, WaveMaker, Kajona, JEdit, ImpressCMS, Alfresco, VIVO, Scoop, BEdita, WikkaWiki, WebGUI, RenovatioCMS, MODx, Frog CMS, SharpForge, MojoMojo, E107, Exponent CMS, SPIP, Concrete5, Group-Office, Quanta Plus, Agorum core, Nuxeo, Refinery CMS, Qcodo, Papaya CMS, RavenNuke, Pimcore, PHP-Fusion, Hippo CMS, Nucleus CMS, EXo Platform, Seagull PHP Framework, Daisy, SciTE, MiaCMS, XWiki, Nvu, Xaraya, Aiki Framework, Bricolage, CMSimple, Campsite, Zeta Components, QPHP Framework, JCore, Naaya, Merlintalk, TangoCMS, CKEditor, SchoolTool, HTML-Kit, B2evolution, KnowledgeTree, MojoPortal, Radiant, Wolf CMS, Bluefish, CreaText, Aloha Editor, Blosxom, Crowd Fusion, Blog:CMS, LifeType, NuBuilder, Moodle Partner, OpenCms, PHPEclipse, JAPS, Relenet, Newscoop, Citadel/UX, Cgidev2, Mozilla Composer, PhpWarmSky, KompoZer, Zwiki, SPINE, BlueGriffon, RText, Quick.Cart, Apache Lenya, Calenco, GetPaid, Thin PHP Framework, Opus, OpenBEXI, Lapis, Lyceum, Zikula, Orchard Project, Tkhtml, WhCMS, DynPG, Website Meta Language, OrfeoGPL, JuffEd, Apache Roller, Pushit, WakkaWiki, Flagship Docs, SkoleSYS, Joomsef, Jakarta Slide, AutoTheme, WYMeditor, Dotclear, Pulse CMS, Pier, Yanel CMS, Vosao CMS, Croogo, MMBase, SchoolForge, ArsDigita Community System, CoffeeCup HTML Editor, KImageMapEditor, Injader, SBLOG, S4J, Links, Midgard Lite, Object TypoScript. Excerpt: MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database. The first version of the software was deployed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia in 2002. It has been deployed since then by many companies as a content management system for internal knowledge management. Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high-traffic websites. Thousands of websites use MediaWiki. Some educators have also assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects. The software is optimized to efficiently handle projects of all sizes, including the largest wikis, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second. Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has also been a major concern for developers. Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki. The software is highly customizable, with more than 700 configuration settings and more than 1,600 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed. More than 600 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing MediaWiki sites. Software hacks are also ava...