# MediaWiki 15 Hacker News commenters recommended MediaWiki and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 6 years (3 owners). **Verdict:** People recommend MediaWiki for its wide feature set, multimedia support and easy multi-user editing. Critics point to security risks from embedded JavaScript and an awkward authoring flow. ## Why people recommend it - Rich features and multimedia support (3 comments): "Because of MediaWiki's multimedia capabilities it can handle complex information just fine, obviously much better than printed predecessors." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781887)) "Mediawiki as a whole has a feature set that 95% of organizations will only scratch the surface of." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187410)) "Mediawiki is very very nice and it has a lot of cool features i've been loving over the years." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529164)) - Easy for many people to edit (2 comments): "my blog is on Mediawiki (which I like so anyone can edit) but the authoring flow is kind of annoying" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001511)) "which I chose because it has good support for allowing users to edit it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215204)) ## What people warn about - Security risks from embedded JavaScript (3 comments): "allow executable JavaScript to be stored and served directly from user-editable namespaces" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264249)) "the fact that MediaWiki sometimes lets editors embed JavaScript could be dangerous" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263914)) "Everyone knows that MediaWiki is exploitable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227307)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Confluence](https://hackerapproved.com/p/confluence.md): 38 recommend - [TiddlyWiki](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tiddlywiki.md): 19 recommend - [Outline](https://hackerapproved.com/p/outline.md): 10 recommend - [OzBrain](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ozbrain.md): 8 recommend - [DokuWiki](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dokuwiki.md): 6 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "MediaWiki", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mediawiki/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).