ProWiki vs. Wikia

General Features ProWiki Wikia
Version
2.0.045
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Last Release Date
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Wikia, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
All users
Hosting Features ProWiki Wikia
Storage Quota
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
System Requirements ProWiki Wikia
Operating System
Unix / Linux
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
N/A
Other Requirements
none
N/A
Datastorage ProWiki Wikia
Text Files
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Oracle
No
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
RCS
Yes
N/A
Other
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Wikia
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Development/Support ProWiki Wikia
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Wikia
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Special Features ProWiki Wikia
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Links ProWiki Wikia
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki Wikia
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Usability ProWiki Wikia
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Statistics ProWiki Wikia
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output ProWiki Wikia
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Wikia
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Yes
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Keywords
Extras ProWiki Wikia
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Wikia
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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