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Anzacdoer (talkcontribs)

I can't help but notice MediaWiki's popularity seems to be in a steady decline. A number of former groups and websites which ran on MediaWiki no longer exist and I've not seen a lot of new popular MediaWiki based sites. Wikipedia itself has had a declining number of active editors for years and I'm thinking the two may be related due to fewer experienced Wikipedians forming their own MediaWiki powered websites.

Google Trends shows MediaWiki popularity peaked in January 2007 and it's now merely 10% of its peak popularity.

Does anyone have any download or other stats which can shed some light as to whether MediaWiki remains popular? Has participation on MediaWiki.org itself increased, remained constant, or declined?

192.232.130.221 (talkcontribs)

Seems unlikely that usage has really declined, due to large wiki networks such as gamepedia and fandom booming over recent years.

Reception123 (talkcontribs)

It happens, some projects close and new ones open. It not being searched on Google doesn't mean that much, really.