| General Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
|
0.9.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (17 days ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Thomas Linden
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
GPL / none
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
average to advanced users
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Unix
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
apache
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite optional
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
No
|
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
builtin
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel |
#49
|
|
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Perl
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PodWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
POD: L<Sandbox> L<Link Description|Sandbox> Creole: [[Sandbox]] [[Sandbox|Link Description]] BBcode: [url]Sandbox[/url] [url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
=head1 The Weather |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
B<bold> |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
I<italics> |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
via html only |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
via html only |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via html only |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via html only |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
G<logo.png> |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
via stylesheet only |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
via stylesheet only |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
=over =item* listitem =back |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
via html only |
| Horizontal Rule |
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