MediaWiki vs. alphawiki

General Features MediaWiki alphawiki
Version
1.45.3
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2016-08-06 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2016-09-10 (10 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
private users, small teams
System Requirements MediaWiki alphawiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
probably every OS
Root Access
No
Yes
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage MediaWiki alphawiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
No
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki alphawiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Links MediaWiki alphawiki
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Scripting
Optional
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Usability MediaWiki alphawiki
Section Editing
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Output MediaWiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Extras MediaWiki alphawiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki alphawiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
'''bold'''
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
''italic''
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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"
}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
: indented line
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

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

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