| General Features | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.2
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v21.12.1
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2021-03-16 (5 years ago)
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2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
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2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2021-03-17 (5 years ago)
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2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
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2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
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| Author |
Hallo Welt! GmbH
|
Dan Brown
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPLv3
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MIT
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
|
PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
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Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows
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Linux, Windows and Unix variants
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
|
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
none
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| Datastorage | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
18885 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
Java Script
|
None
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Output | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | BlueSpice MediaWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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