Wala Wiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Version
1.1.7
1.32.2
Last Release Date
March, 2007
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (18 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
Datastorage Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
diffs
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Links Wala Wiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wala Wiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wala Wiki 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 Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Extras Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= headline =
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italicized''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
monospaced.
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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