Wiki-Toolkit vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Version
0.72
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2006-08-30 (17 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-12-05 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Dominic Hargreaves
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL/Artistic
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Operating System
Anything that runs Perl
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Anything with CGI support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin Interface
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Special Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Links Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Scripting
Optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Usability Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Statistics Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Output Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Extras Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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