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Are there Advertisements or Pop-ups on Mediawiki pages?

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50.196.29.13 (talkcontribs)

I have a really simple question. I am going to create a wiki page for a small business, to act as a knowledge database for our employees and customers. If I create one using mediawiki, will my page get advertisements put on it without my consent? I looked everywhere in the FAQs, and could not find the answer. Thanks!

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

If you have proper controls on your wiki (i.e. make it private, or so only authorized editors can edit), then you won't have a problem with spam. MediaWiki's installation procedure asks what kind of wiki you want and you can choose at that point to restrict access.

Krinkle (talkcontribs)

As Mark pointed out, if your wiki is publicly accessible from the internet, Spam can reach your wiki if you don't have any restrictions or filters in place.

However I think you were asking whether MediaWiki itself contains any advertisements by default. The answer is no. MediaWiki is not shareware, freeware, or adware. MediaWiki is open-source and free software (FOSS). Aside from any extra features installed on mediawiki.org (which you can install as well), what you see here is exactly what you get when you install it. There are no advertisements!

88.130.64.43 (talkcontribs)

Exactly as Krinkle says: No adverts at all - and also no pop-ups.

But: MediaWiki is very customizable. So, if you want it to work somehow differently or to look different, then you can also modify it to do that or look like that. Even if you wanted it to show adverts, that would be possible.

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