MediaWiki vs. LionWiki

General Features MediaWiki LionWiki
Version
1.32.2
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements MediaWiki LionWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage MediaWiki LionWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Links MediaWiki LionWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki LionWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Output MediaWiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Extras MediaWiki LionWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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