| General Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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2.3.13
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1.0.1
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1.0
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0.12.0
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
2026-06-04 (today)
|
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
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2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
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2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
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2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
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2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Clay Alberty
|
David Jobet
|
legolas558
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL2
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GPLv2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
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C#
|
PHP
|
JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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free
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Free
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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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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
family people, hackers
|
private users
|
Advanced End Users
|
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
Windows
|
All
|
OS Independent (Browser Application)
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
IIS 5+
|
Apache
|
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Writable data directory
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
MySql
|
JavaScript-capable browser
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
No
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Unknown
|
No
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No
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| Other |
No
|
No
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SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
.NET Membership platform
|
Supports per-page AES encryption
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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88 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
None
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
No
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| 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 |
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian |
2
English, Italian |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Flat
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Perl
|
Not at the moment
|
JavaScript
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | ProntoWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| 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] |
[Title] |
[[WoaS test page]] |
| 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} |
[Title|http://url.to/] |
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
!, !!, !!! |
!title1 !!title2 !!!title3 |
= Header 1 == Header 2 === Header 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
**bold** |
__bold__ |
*bold text* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
/italics text/ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
__under__ |
|
_underlined text_ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
|
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces and it will be pre formatted |
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}} |
| 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 |
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100)) |
[[Image::woas.png]] |
| 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 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
*item1 *item2 **item21 **item22 *item3 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
# ## ### #### |
#item1 ##item1.1 ##item1.2 #item2 #item3 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
|
;def1 : the complete definition of def1 ;def2 : the complete definition of def2 |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
|
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