Differences between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki/da

Hvad er forskellen på MediaWiki, Wikimedia, Wikipedia og wiki?

Wiki
A wiki is a type of website whose contents can be edited from the web browser, and which keeps a version history for each editable page. Wikis are often, but not always, editable by any visitor to the site.


 * wiki og wiki-princippet betegner den fællesskabs-orienterede filosofi i et sådant system. Ordet er afledt af 'viti', som på Hawai betyder hurtig.


 * den allerførste wiki skabtes 1995 til mønster-kartoteketet Portland Pattern Repository og kaldtes oprindelig WikiWikiWeb.


 * wiki software and wiki engine are terms referring to pieces of software that power wiki websites. There are many different types of wiki software; some very simple, others with advanced features.

Se Wikipedia-artiklen "wiki software" eller PPR's sorterede liste.

For en mere komplet beskrivelse, se Wikipedia-artiklen "wiki".

Wikimedia
Wikimedia er fællesbetegnelsen for en gruppe indbyrdes forbundne projekter, blandt andre Wikipedia,  Wiktionary,  Wikisource,  Wikibooks, med mål og styrke at sammenknytte internettet, og wiki-konceptet, at skabe og dele fri viden af enhver art.


 * Wikimedia servere benævnes den computer hardware, hvor Wikimedia projekterne hostes. Serverne drives og overvåges primært af frivillige, hvoraf mange også arbejder med udvikling af MediaWiki software (se nedenfor).
 * Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco that runs the Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Russia etc. are the names of dozens of local chapters of enthusiasts of Wikimedia projects. They are independent from the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia, depending on the context and locale, is often incorrectly used as short name for the Wikimedia projects, or a chapter, or the Wikimedia Foundation (the latter can happen also on this wiki).
 * Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, forkortet Meta, er en wiki der bruges til at drøfte spørgsmål vedrørende Wikimedia projekterne. Se også: About.
 * Meta should not be confused with MetaWiki, a search engine that is not part of the Wikimedia group of projects.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a Wikimedia project that is a global, free and multilingual internet encyclopedia. It is the oldest, and largest, Wikimedia project, predating the Wikimedia Foundation itself. Wikipedia is often described as a wiki, but it is in fact a collection of over 200 wikis, one for each language, all running on the MediaWiki software.

MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a particular wiki engine, that is developed for and used by Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. MediaWiki is freely available for others to use (and improve), and it is in use by all sorts of projects and organizations around the world.

This site, mediawiki.org, is intended for information about MediaWiki and related software.

Se også

 * Sites using MediaWiki
 * How to become a MediaWiki hacker
 * Grants:Learning patterns/Wikimedia lexicon: wiki, wikipedia, wikimedia, wikimania and the confusing wikiblabla
 * Grants:Learning patterns/Wikimedia lexicon: wiki, wikipedia, wikimedia, wikimania and the confusing wikiblabla
 * Grants:Learning patterns/Wikimedia lexicon: wiki, wikipedia, wikimedia, wikimania and the confusing wikiblabla

Video

 * [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXD1TRGafQ0 The State of Wikipedia] on YouTube