Wiki's Source Code

I was talking to a friend about a website I had in mind. I mentioned that I wanted it to be similar to a wiki just about a certain topic. The only problem was that I had to figure out how to code it. He informed me that the Wikipedia's source is Open-Source, so I could just use their source.. is this true?

 

Yes, here is a wikipedia article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki

And a link to get it:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

 

Many sites use it. Example: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/

 

You should learn to code simple sites like this regardless.

http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp

http://w3schools.com/css/default.asp

 

He isn't going to be able to create a wiki with just HTML and CSS.

 

Yeah, I was thinking he just wanted the same design for static pages.

The necessary PHP and MySQL required to have the same user editing functions isn't overly difficult. It would make a good project to learn PHP on. Though it would take some time.

 

It is very difficult to consider other code but knowledge of PHP and Mysql is important.

 

try wp,not free.

 

WordPress is free...