When comparing Nuclino vs MediaWiki, the Slant community recommends MediaWiki for most people. In the question“What are the best multi-user wikis?” MediaWiki is ranked 2nd while Nuclino is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose MediaWiki is:
Mediawiki is a widely used wiki engine. It is used to power Wikipedia and thus most people will be more comfortable/accustomed to using MediaWiki.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Real-time collaboration
Easy to collaborate with remote team members, simultaneously editing documents, tagging people in text and comments.
Pro Intuitive UI
Everything is drag-and-drop and quite easy to use. Items can be clustered and structured in different ways and the search function makes it easy to navigate.
Pro Fast
Everything like searching, editing, and navigating is super fast.
Pro Cross Platform
Works on all major platforms like web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux.
Pro Markdown support
Helpful for technical documentation.
Pro Integrates with multiple apps including Slack
Pro The de facto standard
Mediawiki is a widely used wiki engine. It is used to power Wikipedia and thus most people will be more comfortable/accustomed to using MediaWiki.
Pro It has a powerful templating system
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under GPL.
Pro Version control
MediaWiki allows viewing past revisions of pages.
Pro It has a usable WYSIWYG editor
Pro Thanks to Wikipedia it is thoroughly documented
Pro Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later of any kind.
Pro Great multilingual support
MediaWiki has full support for over 65 languages and partial support for over 300.
Pro Multiple database support
MediaWiki can store data in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite databases.
Cons
Con Simple formatting
Not really a con, the formatting is similar to the text editor on Medium.com, so if you are looking for different font types and colors, it's probably not for you.
Con Access control requires an extension
There is no built-in access control, but you can download an extension for ACL.