| General Features | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.9.1
|
3.4.9
|
1.45.3
|
| Last Release Date |
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
|
| Author |
Thomas Linden
|
Dale Lane
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
N/A
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
C#
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
GPL / none
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
average to advanced users
|
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Unix
|
Windows, Windows Mobile
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
apache
|
N/A
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite optional
|
.NET 2 Framework
|
none
|
| Datastorage | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
builtin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#49
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
No
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
0
|
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 |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
Perl
|
Optional
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Keywords
|
|
| Extras | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
POD: L<Sandbox> L<Link Description|Sandbox> Creole: [[Sandbox]] [[Sandbox|Link Description]] BBcode: [url]Sandbox[/url] [url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url] |
[Link to a page] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
[http://www.linkme.com] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
=head1 The Weather |
+Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
B<bold> |
*bold text* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
I<italics> |
=italic text= |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
via html only |
_underlined text_ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
[|code sample|] |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
via html only |
-strikethrough text- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
via html only |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
via html only |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
G<logo.png> |
[$image.jpg$] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
via stylesheet only |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
via stylesheet only |
> blockquote text |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
=over =item* listitem =back |
- bulleted |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
# numbered |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
via html only |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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