MediaWiki vs. UseMod vs. PmWiki

General Features MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Version
1.32.2
1.0
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
System Requirements MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
none
none
Datastorage MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Patch
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
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
0
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki UseMod PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
: indented line
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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