How was giantbomb.com made?

[iMacUser324]

How is a website like this made? Allowing users to contribute to articles like a wikipedia. Check out the site and let me know what you guys think? I really would like to make a design like that anyone know how it was made or what program their using? www.giantbomb.com

 

[Me1000]

I didnt look at anything other than a glance at the home page...

Im sure they are using a serverside language like PHP...
Not necessarily any scripts that were purchased or downloaded somewhere, probably just something they wrote themselves...

 

[zim]

Just read their help page

What powers Giant Bomb?

Giant Bomb is powered by an in-house, structured wiki platform designed specifically for and by Whiskey Media.

The "Whiskey Powered" platform benefits from the following open source technologies:

Django - A python based web framework.
Postgres - Database.
Solr - A java powered search engine based off Lucene.
MooTools - A javacript framework.
YUI editor - The Yahoo UI wysiwyg editor.