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| General Features | BlueSpice  | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 1.1 |
1.17.0 |
MICKI_2007_05_12 |
2.2.0 |
| Last Release Date |
2011-03-14 |
2011-06-22 |
2007/05/12 |
2006-10-23 |
| Author |
Hallo Welt! GmbH, Markus Glaser, Robert Vogel, Sebastian Ulbricht, Marc Reymann, Thomas Lorenz, Mathias Scheer, Tobias Weichart e.a. |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Michai Ramakers |
Nemein |
| URL |
blue-spice.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
micki.sheep-thrills.net |
www.midgard-project.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
C |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Files |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
private users / small development teams |
Small teams, corporations, Midgard CMS users |
| System Requirements | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Un*x derivate |
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
Yes |
 No |
No |
Yes |
| Webserver |
Apache 2 / IIS >=5 |
Any with PHP support |
Apache 2.x |
Apache |
| Other Requirements |
JRE 5, Applicationserver (Tomcat or JBoss) |
none |
none |
MySQL, Midgard CMS, PHP |
| Datastorage | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
|
No |
post-edit hooks allow for DB, RCS, ... |
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | BlueSpice | 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 |
No |
 Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| nofollow |
 Optional |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 4 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
No |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
|
svn.wikimedia.org |
|
midcom.tigris.org |
| Issue Tracker |
sourceforge.net/projects/bluespice/support |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
midcom.tigris.org |
| Mailing List |
|
lists.wikimedia.org |
|
www.midgard-project.org |
| Support Forum |
sourceforge.net/projects/bluespice/support |
mwusers.com |
|
www.midgard-project.org |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
|
www.midgard-project.org |
| Common Features | BlueSpice | 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 |
Between all |
Between all |
No |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
| Special Features | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Interface Languages |
2 languages German, English |
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 |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
No |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
None |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Not available |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
|
| Links | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Syntax Features | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
None |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Quoting |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Java Script |
Optional |
none |
PHP can be used in page templates |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Usability | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Statistics | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
| Output | BlueSpice | 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 CSS |
Print CSS |
No |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
No |
|
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media and Files | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
Keywords |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Forums |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
|
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
|
|
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
|
|
| Syntax Examples | BlueSpice | MediaWiki | MicKI | Midgard Wiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
Look at the [Features] for a nice list. |
[Wikipage] [Wikipage|link label] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.org The title] |
Click [http://foo.bar/oink|here] for more. |
[External link](http://www.example.net) |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
==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 |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
This sentence contains *some bold words*. |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
There are _italic words_ in here. |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
<span style="text-decoration: strikethrough;">strikethrough</span> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
Behold, %img(ThePic.png) a picture. |
[photo: IMAGE IDENTIFIER IN GALLERY]  |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
<div style="text-align: center;">centered text</div> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
: indented line |
And don't forget: @box don't eat yellow snow. @ |
> Quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
Learn to count using * one * two * three * ... |
* one |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
1. one |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
None, but tables offer a nice alternative: |# fish | a water animal | |# cow | a land animal | |
Term : Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2012-03-14 | 2011-06-22 | 2007-05-12 | 2006-11-07 |
