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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Wikia  | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
does not apply | 1.20.1 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Last Release Date |
does not apply | 2012-11-30 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Author |
 Wikia, Inc. |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
PBworks |
EditMe, LLC |
| URL |
www.wikia.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
pbworks.com |
www.editme.com |
| Free and Open Source |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License |
does not apply | GPL |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Programming Language |
does not apply | PHP |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Data Storage |
does not apply | Database |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0 |
0 |
Determined by Solution Needs |
From $4.95/mo |
| Development status |
does not apply | Mature |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
All users |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Business Enterprises |
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals |
| Hosting Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited |
does not apply | No limit |
25MB to 4GB |
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited |
does not apply | No limit |
1GB to 25GB |
| Other Limits |
 none |
does not apply | None |
None |
| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness |
does not apply | None |
None |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Own Domain |
 Optional |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| System Requirements | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Operating System |
does not apply | *nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Root Access |
does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Webserver |
does not apply | Any with PHP support |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
does not apply | none |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Datastorage | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Text Files |
does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| MySQL |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Oracle |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| SQLite |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| RCS |
does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other |
does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
No |
| nofollow |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 1 listed |
Yes, 69 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Code Repository |
does not apply | svn.wikimedia.org |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Issue Tracker |
|
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
wiki.editme.com |
| Mailing List |
|
lists.wikimedia.org |
|
www.editme.com |
| Support Forum |
forums.wikia.com |
mwusers.com |
getsatisfaction.com |
wiki.editme.com |
| IRC Channel |
##wikia on freenode |
www.mediawiki.org |
|
|
| Common Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
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 |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
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, 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 |
Not localized |
Not localized |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Flat |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
does not apply | Plugin |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| SisterWiki |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Some |
All |
All |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
Yes |
Optional |
Javascript |
JavaScript |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Usability | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Statistics | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Output | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Media and Files | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
| SVG Editing |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
Keywords |
Contents |
Contents |
| Extras | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Calendar |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
|
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Syntax Examples | Wikia | MediaWiki | PBwiki | EditMe |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor |
| External Link |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Headlines |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<code>monospace</code> |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
|
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
<dl> </dl> |
Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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Use WYSIWYG editor |
| Last updated | 2013-02-18 | 2012-11-30 | 2010-08-16 | 2010-07-12 |
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