Phonemos vs. MediaWiki

General Features Phonemos MediaWiki
Version
2026.01
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2026-01-15 (6 months ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-12 (5 months ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
Author
http://www.phonemos.com
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
License
Proprietary
GPL
Programming Language
React/Typescript, Scala
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Phonemos MediaWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
-
N/A
Topic Restrictions
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Phonemos MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Nginx
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage Phonemos MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam Phonemos MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Phonemos MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Phonemos MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Phonemos MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Italian
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Links Phonemos MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features Phonemos MediaWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
via REST API
Optional
Content Includes
Optional
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability Phonemos MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics Phonemos MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Output Phonemos MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Phonemos MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Extras Phonemos MediaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Phonemos MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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