| General Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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N/A
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2.67
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
N/A
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (16 days ago)
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2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
PBworks
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
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N/A
|
GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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N/A
|
Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
N/A
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Determined by Solution Needs
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Business Enterprises
|
Anyone
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
No limit
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
No limit
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
None
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N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
N/A
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
N/A
|
Any, or none
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
N/A
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Other |
No
|
N/A
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Javascript
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ikiwiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[[internal]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** __bold__ |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<code>monospace</code> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
  |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
Indented block |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
<dl> </dl> |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
| remove MediaWiki | remove PBwiki | remove ikiwiki |