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| General Features | BoltWire  | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 3.3.6 (probably later, check the site) |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-) |
1.16.0 |
1.1.4 |
| Last Release Date |
01/20/2010 |
16-06-2005 |
2010-07-28 |
2009-10-20 |
| Author |
Dan Vis |
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
wkpark and co-workers (please see kldp.net) |
| URL |
www.boltwire.com |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
www.mediawiki.org |
moniwiki.kldp.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Custom - Free |
Public Domain (!) |
GPL |
GPLv2 |
| Programming Language |
php |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Files, DB, RCS |
Database |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
General Users & Advanced Developers |
small + medium sites, development teams |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
less than 100,000 pages |
| System Requirements | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. |
any |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
*NIX,Windows etc. |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache,IIS,standalone(PHP) |
| Other Requirements |
None |
none |
none |
PHP4.2.x,PHP5.x / RCS (or use RcsLite written in PHP) |
| Datastorage | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
|
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
Easily Customizable Datastorage |
no |
No |
can use CVS/Git backend (experimental) |
| Security/Anti-Spam | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Easily Customizable Authentication |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other |
Yes |
Security plugin (since v1.1.2, ACL security module added) |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| nofollow |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes |
 Patch |
No |
Optional |
| Development/Support | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 1 listed |
No |
Yes, 52 listed |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Code Repository |
www.boltwire.com |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
svn.wikimedia.org |
kldp.net |
| Issue Tracker |
www.boltwire.com |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
kldp.net |
| Mailing List |
www.boltwire.com |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
lists.wikimedia.org |
kldp.net |
| Support Forum |
www.boltwire.com |
sourceforge.net |
mwusers.com |
kldp.net |
| IRC Channel |
None |
not yet :-) |
www.mediawiki.org |
|
| Common Features | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Patch |
Yes |
No |
| Interface Languages |
6 languages German, English, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
4 languages German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
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 |
3 languages English, French, Korean |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Flat |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
Patch |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Links | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Patch |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Plugin |
Some |
Plugin |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Yes, multiple kinds |
optional |
Optional |
Plugin mechanism + *Template_* engine |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Patch |
Optional |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Access Keys |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Recent Visitors |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Output | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
No |
No |
Keywords |
No |
| Extras | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Syntax Examples | BoltWire | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | MoniWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[link|label]] |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or ["free link"] [[free link]] ==FreeLink [wiki:PageName show name] KLDPWiki:FrontPage [page name] == PageName [wiki:KLDPWiki:FrontPage front page] |
| External Link |
[[www.example.com]] |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://google.com/ or [http://google.com/ Google] or file://///server/share/file |
| Headlines |
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !!! Header 3 |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** <b>bold</b> |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// <i>italics</i> |
''ialic text'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ <u>underline</u> |
optional or via css |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<pre>monospace</pre> |
==monospaced text== |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{{monispace}}} or `monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strike</strike> |
optional or via css |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ <sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript text^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^supper^ (no spaces) ^^super scription^^ (with spaces) |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
optional or via css |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
img:image.gif [^image.gif parameters^] |
[link to the image.jpg] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg or attachment:foo.jpg [[Attachment(foo.jpg)]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>text</center> <right>text</right> <left>text</left> |
optional or via css |
<center>Centered</center> |
only in tables: ||left[space]|| ||[space]middle[space]|| ||right[space]|| |
| Text Indentation |
-> Text <- |
|
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
<dl><dt><dd> |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
; term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2010-02-17 | 2010-04-04 | 2010-07-28 | 2009-10-22 |
