MediaWiki
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MediaWiki is the name of the software Wikipedia developed in PHP for its own use, that is now used at Metaweb, Disinfopedia and Consumerium, which use the same GFDL license, permitting text from any of these to be copied to any other. However, not all mediawiki sites have this advantage, Wikitravel for instance does not.
An improved XML-complaint version called GetWiki is used at Wikinfo. It is superior in many respects and will probably be more suitable for smaller wikis like Metaweb that don't have all the load problems. It uses the same wikitext standard as the mediawiki sites and is thus fully compatible with our Metaweb:intermediate pages.
Many people confuse MediaWiki software, the GFDL text corpus, the Wikipedia which is simply a user interface and protocol of accessing and updating the corpus using the software, and further confuse these with the "community" of contributors and editors and censors who edit the text using the MediaWiki software and Wikipedia rules. In order to help sort out the confusion the Wikimedia foundation was formed to deal with the management only of the wikipedia spinoff projects, and direct the upgrades to the software, e.g. adding an XML dump capability to help satisfy the GFDL.