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| General Features | BusinessWiki  | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.5 |
MindTouch 2009 |
4.2 |
does not apply |
| Last Release Date |
12.06.2009 |
2010-01-20 |
September 2009 |
does not apply |
| Author |
Divante Ltd |
MindTouch |
eTouch Systems |
Wikispaces.com |
| URL |
onbusinesswiki.com |
www.mindtouch.com |
www.etouch.net |
www.wikispaces.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
 No |
does not apply |
| License |
GPL + paid hosting and consulting |
GPL, LGPL |
Commercial |
does not apply |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP, C# on Mono (open source platform independent .NET |
Java |
does not apply |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Files, DB |
does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
from $25, free trial, free open source edition |
FREE open source and Commercial Edition |
Pls check www.etouch.net |
free for public and protected (members-only) spaces; $5/mo. for private and ad-free spaces |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
Businesses, Education, and Individuals |
Developers, System integrators, Business Decision Makers, IT Professionals, Subject Matter Experts, Anyone from technical users to non-technical users |
Anyone who intends to use the Web for a collaborative initiatives.Geared for Enterprise Users. |
interest groups, education, small companies, social groups, individuals |
| Hosting Features | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited |
|
None |
2GB - 200GB+ |
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited |
|
None |
no limit set |
| Other Limits |
none |
|
User-based |
none |
| Topic Restrictions |
none |
No |
No pornography |
per terms of service |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Own Domain |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| System Requirements | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows |
Windows, Linux, BSD, MAC OS X |
Windows/Linux/Solaris |
does not apply |
| Root Access |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Apache and IIS |
Bundled with Tomcat. Can run on any J2EE app server(OAS,JBOSS,WebLogic,WebSphere etc). Can be proxied via webserver of choice(Apache,IIS etc) |
does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
|
Mono - Can install in minutes using prepared VMware certified images. |
JDK1.5 |
does not apply |
| Datastorage | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
Yes |
does not apply |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Other |
|
|
|
does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM and more |
HTTP Auth, PHP Auth, LDAP, Active Directory, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, ... |
Database,LDAP (AD, OID,Novell,Sun etc), SSO (Siteminder,WebSeal, OracleSSO etc) |
does not apply |
| Host Blocking |
 Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Development/Support | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Commercial Support |
|
Yes, 9 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Code Repository |
Source included with commercial license |
wiki.developer.mindtouch.com |
Source Code is not included |
does not apply |
| Issue Tracker |
onbusinesswiki.com |
bugs.developer.mindtouch.com |
support.etouch.net |
www.wikispaces.com |
| Mailing List |
onbusinesswiki.com |
wiki.developer.mindtouch.com |
samepage-support@etouch.net |
n/a |
| Support Forum |
community.onbusinesswiki.com |
forums.developer.mindtouch.com |
forums.etouch.net |
www.wikispaces.com |
| IRC Channel |
onbusinesswiki.com |
irc.freenode.net. #mindtouch |
Not available currently |
n/a |
| Common Features | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Change Summary |
Optional |
Yes |
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 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Special Features | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
2 languages English, Polish |
26 languages Azerbaijani, Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Mongolian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Swedish, Tatar, Urdu, Uzbek, Chinese |
5 languages German, English, French, Hungarian, Polish |
8 languages Welsh, German, English, Spanish, Basque, French, Italian, Polish |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Flat |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Structured Data |
|
Yes |
 Patch |
No |
| Links | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
All |
Optional |
Optional |
| Math formulas |
Optional |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
|
Yes, one can add an unsafe extension and add any scripting language or use DekiScript, which has a Javascript syntax. |
Direct scripting prohibited for security reasons.Can be done via plugins, custom js files. |
yes: javascript |
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Output | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.1 |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
|
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Media and Files | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Contents |
Contents |
Filenames only |
| Extras | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Syntax Examples | BusinessWiki | MindTouch | SamePage | Wikispaces |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WYSIWYG with page browse dialog. Or [[link]] and [[../foo/bar]] |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
[[pagename]] or [[pagename|alias]] or [[spacename:pagename]] |
| External Link |
[http://businesswiki.eu The title] |
WYSIWYG with page browse dialog, auto-linking, and [[http://foo.com]] |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
[[http://somewhere.else]] or http://somewhere.else |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 == === Headline 3 === |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
WYSIWYG, ctrl-b |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
WYSIWYG, ctrl-i |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
WYSIWYG, ctrl-u |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
| Images |
[[Image:bwi.png]] |
WYSIWYG with image browse and edit dialog. Also, copy/paste to editor and straight HTML. |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
[[image:image.jpg]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
via editor tool |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
WYSIWYG, tab |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
> indent |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
* one * two ** sub-two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
WYSIWYG, ctrl-l |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
# one # two ## sub-two # three |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
WYSIWYG |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
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| Last updated | 2009-06-14 | 2010-01-28 | 2009-09-30 | 2009-11-12 |