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

¿Confundíu sobro les diferencies ente MediaWiki, Wikimedia, Wikipedia y 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 (como axetivu) «el xeitu Wiki» y l'antónimu non-wiki son emplegaos tamién pa describir la filosofía comunitaria (p.ex.: «Ési nun ye un xeitu wiki de facelo»)


 * Wiki (con mayúscula) y WikiWikiWeb úsense pa referise a Portland Pattern Repository, el primer wiki que se creó.


 * 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.

Ver tamién: l'artículu «Software pa wikis» en Uiquipedia o la llista de motores wiki de Portland Pattern Repository.

''Pa una definición más completa, ver l'artículu correspondiente na Uiquipedia.'

Wikimedia
Wikimedia ye'l nome d'un coleutivu de proyeutos interrelacionaos, incluyendo a Wikipedia, Uiccionariu, Wikisource, Wikillibros, ente otros, al evís d'aprovechar la naturaleza collaborativa d'Internet, amás del conceutu de wiki, pa crear y compartir conocencia de toles menes.


 * El términu sirvidores de Wikimedia emplégase a vegaes pa referise al hardware informático nel que tán agospiaos tolos proyeutos de Wikimedia. Los sirvidores caltiénenlos principalmente voluntarios, munchos de los cuales tamién trabayen nel desendolcu del software MediaWiki (ver más abaxo).
 * 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).
 * El Meta-Wiki de Wikimedia, más conocíu como Meta, ye'l wiki emplegáu p'aldericar asuntos qu'afeuten a tolos proyeutos de Wikimedia. Ver tamién: Meta:Al rodiu de (n'inglés).
 * Meta-Wiki nun habría de tracamundiáse con MetaWiki, un motor de gueta que nun pertenez a Wikimedia.

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 a wiki that runs 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.

Ver tamién

 * Sites using MediaWiki
 * How to become a MediaWiki hacker
 * How to become a MediaWiki hacker

Videu

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