FYI Magnus Manske wrote the first version of MediaWiki, the PHP software which is underlying Wikipedia. It is constantly evolving and nowadays still a state-of-

FYI Magnus Manske wrote the first version of MediaWiki, the PHP software which is underlying Wikipedia. It is constantly evolving and nowadays still a state-of-the-art code with a mature code base, a great documentation, API, extendability. Ontop of MediaWiki, people built WikiData or the semantic MediaWiki extension which can be used in a way to write complex web applications right ontop of a wiki with a minimum of code (wrote a video portal once based on SMW). Having that said, the wikipedia ecosystem lives from a number of seperate tools which query the wikipedia database. One of the early well-known tools was the editcounter which allowed people to count their edits on wikipedia, for instance. I think it is fair enough to let these tools be tools. Either they work for you or they don't. Many of them are open sourced and you can go on, fork and host them on your own. Instead, this tells nothing about the quality of MediaWiki, IMHO. There are a number of maintainers keeping up quality and progress in MediaWiki itself.