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| General Features | MediaWiki  | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.20.1 |
 |
does not apply |
| Last Release Date |
2012-11-30 |
|
does not apply |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Michal Frackowiak |
Paul Klipp |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.wikidot.com |
www.picowiki.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| License |
GPL |
AGPLv3 |
does not apply |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
|
does not apply |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month) |
free |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks |
mobile professionals |
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | 1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts |
 none |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | no limit |
none |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | max uploaded file size limit |
none |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | by Terms Of Service |
none |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | Yes |
No |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | Yes |
No |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | Yes |
No |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
|
does not apply |
| Root Access |
No |
|
does not apply |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
|
does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
none |
|
does not apply |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
|
does not apply |
| MySQL |
Yes |
|
does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Oracle |
Yes |
|
does not apply |
| SQLite |
Yes |
|
does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
|
does not apply |
| RCS |
No |
|
does not apply |
| Other |
No |
|
does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
|
does not apply |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
 Plugin |
No |
No |
| nofollow |
 Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 69 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
|
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
www.wikidot.org |
does not apply |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
|
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
n/a |
info@picowiki.com |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
community.wikidot.com |
by email |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
n/a |
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
None |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
No |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| 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, 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 |
2 languages English, Polish |
Not localized |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
No |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
None |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
No |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
None |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
|
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
No |
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Quoting |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional |
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language |
|
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Output | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
Optional |
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
No |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
No |
No |
| Extras | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Optional |
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Forums |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Blogs |
No |
Yes |
|
| Ticket System |
No |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Wikidot | PicoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[Link]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
|
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
+++ headline level 3 |
|
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold text** |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italic text// |
|
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined text__ |
|
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospaced text}} |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough text-- |
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
|
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[[image src="..."]] |
|
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
= Centered line |
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
|
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
: item : description |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2012-11-30 | 2009-12-09 | 2008-07-07 |