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Comparison

MediaWiki vs ProWiki

Pick MediaWiki when

  • Large public knowledge bases
  • Fandom-style community wikis
  • Docs-heavy orgs with a wiki admin
  • Open-source documentation projects

When MediaWiki is not a fit

  • Small teams wanting a quick internal wiki
  • Non-technical users without a server admin
  • Anyone wanting Notion-style modern editing
  • Teams that won't patch CVEs promptly

Sources

  1. Why so complicated for the casual user to manage? . Redditreddit.com
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  2. Someone please create a modern alternative to MediaWiki . Redditreddit.com
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  3. How much effort is the set up and maintenance for media wiki? . Redditreddit.com
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  4. MediaWiki Reviews . G2g2.com
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  5. MediaWiki Reviews . Capterracapterra.com
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  6. Confluence Alternative: ProWiki, Managed MediaWiki Hostingpro.wiki
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  7. Hosting services . MediaWiki.orgmediawiki.org
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  8. Security . MediaWiki.orgmediawiki.org
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  9. CVE-2026-34094: MediaWiki Auth Bypass Vulnerability . SentinelOnesentinelone.com
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  10. MediaWiki 1.44.x < 1.44.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities . Tenabletenable.com
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  11. Security and maintenance release: 1.43.9 / 1.44.6 / 1.45.4 . Wikimedialists.wikimedia.org
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  12. MediaWiki underpins Wikipedia . Wikimedia Foundationwikimediafoundation.org
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  13. Case study: 3DMSI . BGS Earthwiseearthwise.bgs.ac.uk
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  14. Semantic MediaWiki case study . Creative Commonsopensource.creativecommons.org
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