MediaWiki Features

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org) and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers.

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General Features MediaWiki
Version
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (5 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
License
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Data Storage
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Development status
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements MediaWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage MediaWiki
Text Files
No
MySQL
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Oracle
Yes
SQLite
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
RCS
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
ACL
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Development/Support MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Page History
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
Email notification
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Links MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Freelinks
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Image Links
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Markdown Support
No
Textile Support
No
BBCode Support
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Quoting
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Scripting
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Output MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
XML export
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Image Editing
No
SVG Editing
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Extras MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Blogs
No
Ticket System
No
Chat
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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