alphawiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features alphawiki MediaWiki
Version
v.20160608
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements alphawiki MediaWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
Yes
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage alphawiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support alphawiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Links alphawiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability alphawiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Statistics alphawiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Output alphawiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Extras alphawiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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