| General Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
|
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Thomas Linden
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
AGPLv3
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
GPL / none
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
average to advanced users
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
no limit
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
max uploaded file size limit
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
by Terms Of Service
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Unix
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
apache
|
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite optional
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
No
|
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
builtin
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#49
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||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
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 |
2
English, Polish |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Perl
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PodWiki | Wikidot |
| 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] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
=head1 The Weather |
+++ headline level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
B<bold> |
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
I<italics> |
//italic text// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
via html only |
__underlined text__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
{{monospaced text}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
via html only |
--strikethrough text-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via html only |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via html only |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
G<logo.png> |
[[image src="..."]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
via stylesheet only |
= Centered line |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
via stylesheet only |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
=over =item* listitem =back |
* element 1 * element 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
# element 1 # element 1 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
via html only |
: item : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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