PageWork vs. MediaWiki vs. UseMod

General Features PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Version
0.4.8
1.45.3
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Pitt Murmann
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Medium-sized sites
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
none
Datastorage PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Patch
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
No
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
0
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Unknown
No
Scripting
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
No
Extras PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PageWork MediaWiki UseMod
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
This is __underlined__.
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
This is --not-- important.
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
: indented line
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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