MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. PBwiki

General Features MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Version
1.32.2
5.2
N/A
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
N/A
License
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
No
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
Yes
System Requirements MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Other Requirements
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Datastorage MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Text Files
No
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
Yes
N/A
SQLite
Yes
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
No
N/A
Other
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Optional
Output MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Confluence PBwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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