A free web-based wiki software application, it is developed by Wikimedia Foundation under GNU General Public License (GPL). Projects are run with it including all types of wikis to run their websites. Using a backend database, it is developed using PHP programming language. The requirement set for MediaWiki is regularly defined by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects as scalability is one of the major concerns for developers. MediaWiki software is fully customizable and more than 1800 extensions are available for enabling features. Released under Creative Commons BY SA 3.0 license and partly under public domain, the software allows the use of open source media formats.

Apps4Rent offers hardened images of MediaWiki on Azure with Windows platform. Apps4Rent helps you in reliable deployment of MediaWiki on Azure along with a fully managed process and 24/7 monitoring and support. 

Key features available in MediaWiki on Azure:

• Easy Navigation
• Editing, Formatting, and Referencing
• Look and feel change
• File uploading
• Multilingual support
• User Management
• Syndication

Disclaimer: Apps4Rent does not offer commercial licenses of any of the products mentioned above. The products come with open source licenses.

Default ports:

• RDP: 3389 TCP/UDP
• MySQL: 3306 TCP (Private Network)
• HTTP: 80 TCP
• HTTPS: 443 TCP

Learn more:

MediaWiki on Azure
Managed Azure services
Solutions on Microsoft Azure