Confluence vs. ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. SharePoint Wiki Plus

General Features Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Version
5.2
2.67
1.32.2
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2017-08-04 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-11 (5 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
KWizCom Corporation
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
No
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
GPL
per server
Programming Language
Java
Perl
PHP
.NET - C#
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
$3680
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
Hosting Features Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows Server 2003/2008
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
Microsoft IIS
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Datastorage Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
MS SQL Server
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
140
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Output Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Optional
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''Bold text'''
Italics Format
_italics_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
''Italicized text''
Underline Format
+underline+
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined text</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text=
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strike through</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<div align="right">
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
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***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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