Phonemos vs. Papyrs vs. MediaWiki

General Features Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Version
2026.01
N/A
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2026-01-15 (6 months ago)
N/A
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-12 (5 months ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
Author
http://www.phonemos.com
Stunf BV
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
License
Proprietary
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
React/Typescript, Scala
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Businesses
Companies, teams and professionals.
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
161061273600
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
System Requirements Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Nginx
N/A
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
none
Datastorage Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
No
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
No
Other
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
N/A
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Italian
1
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
via REST API
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Output Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Phonemos Papyrs MediaWiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
## Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*italic*
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`mono`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
<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
- list
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term : definition
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