MediaWiki vs UseModWiki
MediaWiki
mediawiki.orgUseModWiki
usemod.orgSide by side
| Figure | MediaWiki | UseModWiki |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Wiki Software | 8.5 (#9) | 7.3 (#29) |
| Purpose | MediaWiki is server-based wiki software for collecting, organizing, and sharing knowledge. | UseModWiki is software for creating websites that users can collaboratively edit, including changing text written by other users. |
| Support | The MediaWiki site directs users with questions to its community support desk and offers documentation, FAQs, and community communication channels. | The site links to user-to-user help, developer questions, a mailing list for major announcements, and a contact address for the project. |
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In their own words
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is free, server-based wiki software for collecting, organizing, and sharing knowledge. Contributors edit pages in wikitext without needing HTML or CSS, and previous page versions remain available for reverting. Administrators can customize appearance and behavior with extensions; caching supports large, high-traffic wikis. Its REST API provides HTTP access to wiki content and functions such as search, page transformations, and history, with JSON or HTML output and extension-specific endpoints. MediaWiki is self-hosted under GNU GPL version 2 or later and is provided without warranty to the extent permitted by law. The latest stable version requires PHP 8.3.0 or later, a web server, and MariaDB 10.3.0+, MySQL 5.7.0+, PostgreSQL 10.0+, or SQLite 3.31.0+. Each release receives security updates for one year, and developers recommend subscribing to the low-traffic mediawiki-announce list. Third-party extensions may be unmaintained, vulnerable, incompatible with some versions, or unreliable together. Documentation, FAQs, community channels, and a support desk are available through the MediaWiki site.