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Architecture Or What is the technology stack behind Wikipedia.org

Overview of web technologies used by Wikipedia.org.
Website Background
Wikipedia
Description on Homepage
13 January 2001
Online since
Number 7 of all websites according to Alexa
Popularity rank
Country
Visitors
Country Rank
United States
21.9%
7
India
8.9%
8
Japan
8.6%
12

City
Visitors
City Rank
Tokyo, JP
2.3%
11
New York, NY, US
2.1%
6
Los Angeles, CA, US
1.6%
7
Main visitors locations
MediaWiki is an open source wiki-style content management system written in PHP, originally developed for Wikipedia by Lee Daniel Crocker.
MediaWiki 1.27.0
(0% of sites use a newer version)
PHP is a popular scripting language for creating web pages.
PHP 
JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.
JavaScript 
HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.
HTML5 
UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.
UTF-8 
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.
JPEG 
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.
PNG 
External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.
External CSS 
Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a

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