WikiPack vs. MediaWiki vs. UseMod vs. PmWiki

General Features WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Version
N/A
1.32.2
1.0
2.3.32
Last Release Date
N/A
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2012-05-23 (11 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
Author
Mark Beattie
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free while in open beta
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual Markdown geeks & writers
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Hosting Features WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Storage Quota
None (determined by Dropbox plan)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None while in open beta
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
none
none
Datastorage WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Patch
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
0
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Usability WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Output WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WikiPack MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Internal Link
[[LinkToSomePage|link to some page]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[Google](http://google.com)
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading etc
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
not supported
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
indent 4 spaces (or 2 tabs)
for code blocks
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
not supported
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
not supported
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
not supported
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
![External image](http://somesite.com/imageurl.jpg)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
not supported
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> Prefix block quotes with an angled bracket
>> Nest brackets to control indentation
: indented line
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* list item one
* list item two
* sub item one
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. item one
2. item two
1. Sub item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not supported
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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