PodWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Version
0.9.1
1.32.2
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2007-02-13 (18 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (18 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Academic Free License
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Operating System
Unix
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
none
Datastorage PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
builtin
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
None
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Perl
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PodWiki MediaWiki SubWiki
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
I<italics>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
via html only
<u>underlined</u>
N/A
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
via html only
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
Superscript Format
via html only
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
via html only
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
G<logo.png>
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via html only
; term : definition
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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