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Feature Comparison
| General Features | MediaWiki  | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.15.0 |
does not apply | does not apply |
 Last Release Date |
2009-06-10 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
PBwiki, Inc. |
8th Fold llc |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
pbwiki.com |
www.seedwiki.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License |
GPL |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Data Storage |
Database |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
Free / Premium (as little as $4/user/month) |
Free/$10/$20/$50 per month |
| Development status |
Mature |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Businesses, Education, and Individuals |
Professional, Educational, and Personal |
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | 10MB up to 10GB, additional storage available by quote |
200 MB for free accounts + $6 per gig each month |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | No limit |
Unlimited |
| Other Limits |
does not apply |  None |
Unlimited pages, unlimited wikis, and unlimited users |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | None |
None except for porn and spam, but everything else is allowed -- the commercial, the personal, and even the trivial are allowed. |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Root Access |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
none |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| MySQL |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Oracle |
|
does not apply | does not apply |
| SQLite |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| RCS |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
 Optional |
|
| Mail Encryption |
 Plugin |
No |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 37 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
www.seedwiki.com |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
|
|
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
getsatisfaction.com |
www.seedwiki.com |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
|
You may also Skype us or call us directly on the phone. |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
140 languages 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, 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 |
Not localized |
3 languages English, Japanese, French |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Flat |
Flat |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
None |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
|
|
| Links | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
|
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
All |
All |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
|
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
|
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Footnotes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional |
Javascript |
Javascript and special Seedwiki widgets |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Usability | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Templates |
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 |
Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| Output | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
|
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
No |
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
|
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
|
|
| Forums |
Plugin |
|
|
| Blogs |
No |
|
|
| Ticket System |
No |
|
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PBwiki | SeedWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[link] plus just in case we support the [[mediawiki]] notation |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<code>monospace</code> |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
|
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
<dl> </dl> |
Visual editor, plus several other ways |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-06-10 | 2008-09-23 | 2006-05-27 |
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