MediaWiki vs. WikiCrowd

General Features MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Version
1.45.3
0.0.16
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
29 Nov, 2010
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Stas Davydov
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Personal, Corporate, Community
System Requirements MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
none
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
Datastorage MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
No
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki WikiCrowd
# 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 WikiCrowd
Preview
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
2
English, Russian
Email notification
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Links MediaWiki WikiCrowd
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki WikiCrowd
HTML Tags
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Scripting
Optional
Plugin, JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Usability MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki WikiCrowd
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 WikiCrowd
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki WikiCrowd
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Extras MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WikiCrowd
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
No
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
No
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
No
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_subscript_
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
@img url
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
No
Text Indentation
: indented line
No
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
No
Definition Lists
; term : definition
No
Horizontal Rule
----
No
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