| General Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
|
2.3.13
|
1.0.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
2026-06-04 (today)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Clay Alberty
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
free
|
Free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
family people, hackers
|
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
IIS 5+
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Writable data directory
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
No
|
No
|
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
.NET Membership platform
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
88 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
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 |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Perl
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
optional, default on: [[page name]] optional, default off: PageName [PageName] → [1] [[[page name]]] → [1] [PageName text] → text [[page name|text]] → text Depending on plugins: [text](page) → text |
[pagename] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
{title|url} |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
!, !!, !!! |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
__under__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
no example known |
available through custom tags |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
multiple spaces -> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** two |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
# ## ### #### |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
|
| remove MediaWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove ProntoWiki |