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| General Features | Banana Dance  | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 Beta v2 |
1.17.0 |
MICKI_2007_05_12 |
2.2.0 |
| Last Release Date |
July 2011 |
2011-06-22 |
2007/05/12 |
2006-10-23 |
| Author |
Jon Belelieu |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Michai Ramakers |
Nemein |
| URL |
www.bananadance.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
micki.sheep-thrills.net |
www.midgard-project.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPLv2 |
GPL |
GPL |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
C |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Files |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Beta |
Mature |
Beta |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Users (1) Buidling entire websites (2) Building product manuals (3) building community websites, and of course, (4) building anything needing a wiki! |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
private users / small development teams |
Small teams, corporations, Midgard CMS users |
| System Requirements | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Operating System |
Recommended: Linux |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Un*x derivate |
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Webserver |
Apache |
Any with PHP support |
Apache 2.x |
Apache |
| Other Requirements |
PHP, MySQL |
none |
none |
MySQL, Midgard CMS, PHP |
| Datastorage | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Text Files |
 Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
|
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
|
No |
post-edit hooks allow for DB, RCS, ... |
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
Yes |
|
PAM, LDAP, NTLM, Midgard database |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
|
 Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| nofollow |
|
Optional |
No |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 1 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
No |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
Coming post-beta |
svn.wikimedia.org |
|
midcom.tigris.org |
| Issue Tracker |
www.doyoubananadance.com |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
midcom.tigris.org |
| Mailing List |
www.doyoubananadance.com |
lists.wikimedia.org |
|
www.midgard-project.org |
| Support Forum |
www.doyoubananadance.com |
mwusers.com |
|
www.midgard-project.org |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
|
www.midgard-project.org |
| Common Features | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
None |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
To current |
Between all |
No |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
| Special Features | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
|
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Interface Languages |
Not localized |
140 languages 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 |
Not localized |
4 languages English, German, Finnish, Swedish |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
 Patch |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
No |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
None |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Not available |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
|
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
|
| Links | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| CamelCase |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| SisterWiki |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Syntax Features | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Some |
None |
Some |
| Math formulas |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Textile Support |
|
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Footnotes |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
|
Optional |
none |
PHP can be used in page templates |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Feed Aggregation |
|
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Usability | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Statistics | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
|
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
| Output | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
No |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional |
No |
|
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| Abbreviations |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| HTML Export |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
|
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media and Files | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Image Editing |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media Search |
No |
Keywords |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Calendar |
No |
Plugin |
|
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Forums |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
|
| Blogs |
No |
No |
|
|
| Ticket System |
Optional |
No |
|
|
| Syntax Examples | Banana Dance | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Internal Link |
[[article name::category name|Link Name]] (category name) is optional. |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
Look at the [Features] for a nice list. |
[Wikipage] [Wikipage|link label] |
| External Link |
[[http://www.site.com/|Link Name]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
Click [http://foo.bar/oink|here] for more. |
[External link](http://www.example.net) |
| Headlines |
----Heading---- ---Heading--- --Heading-- |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
+ This is a headline ++ This is a subtitle +++ This is a sub-sub-title ++++ etc etc etc. |
# Top Level Heading ## Smaller Heading ###### Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
**Text** |
'''bold''' |
This sentence contains *some bold words*. |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//Text// |
''italic'' |
There are _italic words_ in here. |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
__Text__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
[code][/code] Or tab-indent text |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
[strike]Text[/strike] |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
<span style="text-decoration: strikethrough;">strikethrough</span> |
| Superscript Format |
[sup]Text[/sup] |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
[sub]Text[/sub] |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
((/path/to/image.jpg|width|height|Image Title|Image Caption)) Only path is required. Auto-resizes images. |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
Behold, %img(ThePic.png) a picture. |
[photo: IMAGE IDENTIFIER IN GALLERY]  |
| Aligning Text |
-->right text <->center text |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
<div style="text-align: center;">centered text</div> |
| Text Indentation |
[quote]Quote Text[/quote] |
: indented line |
And don't forget: @box don't eat yellow snow. @ |
> Quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
Learn to count using * one * two * three * ... |
* one |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
1. one |
| Definition Lists |
[def] Term: Definition [/def] |
; term : definition |
None, but tables offer a nice alternative: |# fish | a water animal | |# cow | a land animal | |
Term : Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
==== |
---- |
|
<hr /> |
| Last updated | 2011-12-07 | 2011-06-22 | 2007-05-12 | 2006-11-07 |
