| General Features | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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N/A
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
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N/A
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
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2012-05-23 (14 years ago)
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| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Mark Beattie
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| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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N/A
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| License |
GPL
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N/A
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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N/A
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| Data Storage |
Database
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N/A
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Free while in open beta
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| Development status |
Mature
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N/A
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Individual Markdown geeks & writers
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| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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None (determined by Dropbox plan)
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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None
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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None while in open beta
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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None
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
No
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
No
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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N/A
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| Root Access |
No
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N/A
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
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N/A
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| Other Requirements |
none
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N/A
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
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| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
N/A
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
| Other |
No
|
N/A
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
N/A
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| Code Repository |
N/A
|
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| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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| 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
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
No
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| 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
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | WikiPack |
| 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 | WikiPack |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[LinkToSomePage|link to some page]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[Google](http://google.com) |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
# Heading 1 ## Heading 2 ### Heading etc |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
not supported |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
indent 4 spaces (or 2 tabs) for code blocks |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
not supported |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
not supported |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
not supported |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
 |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
not supported |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
> Prefix block quotes with an angled bracket >> Nest brackets to control indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list item one * list item two * sub item one |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. item one 2. item two 1. Sub item |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
not supported |
| Horizontal Rule |
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