5 engineers on Hacker News describe using MediaWiki first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We used to use a Mediawiki wiki... does the job for everything but tables, which suck”
mixed · production · vacri · 2016-02-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a private Mediawiki instance for ourselves to share and store all sorts of information & knowledge, and I have a Phil_TODO page on there.”
endorse · production · mindcrime · 2013-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We eat our dog food all over wikipedia for that reason. Personal user styles and javascripts are even stored as wiki-pages.”
endorse · production · zbowling · 2011-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as I ran before like the MediaWiki server”
neutral · personal · ButlerianJihad · 2026-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“MediaWiki accounts for the lion's share of the servers we run”
neutral · production · _joe · 2017-05-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?