MediaWiki vs. PageWork

General Features MediaWiki PageWork
Version
1.32.2
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements MediaWiki PageWork
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage MediaWiki PageWork
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Output MediaWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
Extras MediaWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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