Wiki & knowledge base
MediaWiki
The software behind Wikipedia.
open source self-hostable Wikimedia Foundation · USHeavyweight, extensible, free; run by a US foundation.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Wiki & knowledge base” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Wikimedia Foundation (US) |
|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 512 MB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 5 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Confluence |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | stars · updated · PHP |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
Machine-readable: /api/tools/mediawiki.json. Something wrong? Tell us.