on
Mediawiki likely to provide any security hole that 'ordinary' web
pages
don't? (or: 'what do I say to sound authoritative?' ;-)
like any web application, it uses dynamic content and therefore accesses other data than its own read-only pages. there's naturally a risk involved. MW in particular is also given he right to write files to the local disks (if you enabled uploads) and that opens another potential can of worms. No application is completely safe from human error and some holes are not avoidable in advance, yada yada yada.
ok...but think 'talking to paranoid Information Systems people who are obsessed with security'. can I tell them there is no security reason to not use wikis, (responsibly)