BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PageWork vs. LionWiki

General Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Version
3.2
1.32.2
0.4.8
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
Author
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
GPL
GPLv3
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
All PHP supported
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Any with PHP support
Any
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
2
German, English
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Java Script
Optional
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
No
Output BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
Keywords
No
Extras BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples BlueSpice MediaWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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