MediaWiki vs. Phonemos

General Features MediaWiki Phonemos
Version
1.45.3
2026.01
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2026-01-15 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2026-02-12 (8 months ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
http://www.phonemos.com
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
GPL
Proprietary
Programming Language
PHP
React/Typescript, Scala
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Businesses
Hosting Features MediaWiki Phonemos
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
-
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
System Requirements MediaWiki Phonemos
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Nginx
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage MediaWiki Phonemos
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Phonemos
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Phonemos
# 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 Phonemos
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Phonemos
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
4
German, English, French, Italian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki Phonemos
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 Phonemos
HTML Tags
Some
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Scripting
Optional
via REST API
Content Includes
Yes
Optional
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Usability MediaWiki Phonemos
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki Phonemos
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Output MediaWiki Phonemos
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MediaWiki Phonemos
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Phonemos
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Phonemos
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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