With Microsoft Windows and macOS, the XAMPP Project provides MySQL along with phpMyAdmin as a pack-in. The XAMPP control panel provides one-click access to phpMyAdmin.

In addition to Apache, MySQL, and PHP, XAMPP includes thephpMyAdmin database administration tool, FileZilla FTP server,Mercury mail server, Perl programming language, and JSP serverTomcat.

That will launch XAMPP's Control Panel, which lets you start all the services you need. To run MediaWiki, you need two services: Apache web server, and the MySql database server.

A fresh installation of the XAMPP Control Panel on a Windows device doesn’t hold the root password for MySQL PHPMyAdmin. In such a case, it could be easily accessible to everyone and that ...