MediaWiki vs. Wala Wiki

General Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Version
1.32.2
1.1.7
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-06 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
System Requirements MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, *BSD
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Any that supports basic CGI.
Other Requirements
none
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
diffs
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
ACL
No
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Wala Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Preview
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki
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
Flat
Categories
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Links MediaWiki Wala Wiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Math formulas
Yes
No
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
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Usability MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki Wala Wiki
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 Wala Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Wala Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Extras MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Wala Wiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= headline =
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bolded'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italicized''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
monospaced.
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
:Block-quoted text.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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