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General FeaturesConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Version 4.0 2012-01-25 "Angua" 2.8.3 1.17.0 MindTouch TCS 1.9.4 0.61
Last Release Date 19th September, 2011 2012-01-25 2009-11-13 2011-06-22 2010-11-12 2012-02-21 2008/10/28
Author Atlassian Andreas Gohr Apache Software Foundation Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. MindTouch moinmo.in Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL www.atlassian.com www.dokuwiki.org www.jspwiki.org www.mediawiki.org www.mindtouch.com moinmo.in zwiki.org
Free and Open Source No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
License Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use GPL 2 Apache License GPL GPL, LGPL GPL GPLv2
Programming Language Java PHP Java PHP PHP, C# on Mono (open source platform independent .NET Python Python
Data Storage Database Files Files, DB, RCS Database Database Files Database
License Cost/ Fee starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) 0 0 0 FREE open source and Commercial Edition 0 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience Enterprise + Technical Teams private, small to medium companies all End Users/Desktop, Education Developers, System integrators, Business Decision Makers, IT Professionals, Subject Matter Experts, Anyone from technical users to non-technical users Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting FeaturesConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Storage Quota 10 to 100GB+ does not applydoes not applydoes not apply  does not applydoes not apply
Bandwidth Quota 100GB/month does not applydoes not applydoes not apply  does not applydoes not apply
Other Limits No does not applydoes not applydoes not apply  does not applydoes not apply
Topic Restrictions No does not applydoes not applydoes not apply No does not applydoes not apply
Corporate Branding Yes does not applydoes not applydoes not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply
Own Domain Optional does not applydoes not applydoes not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply
Ads allowed Yes does not applydoes not applydoes not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply
System RequirementsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Operating System Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others any platform supporting JDK 1.5+ *nix, Windows, Mac OS X Windows, Linux, BSD, MAC OS X UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ any
Root Access No No No No Yes No No
Webserver Apache Tomcat Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support any servlet 2.4+ compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere Any with PHP support Apache and IIS Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares Zope
Other Requirements Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+   optional JavaMail for mailing functionality none Mono - Can install in minutes using prepared VMware certified images. None  
DatastorageConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Text Files No Yes Yes No No Yes Plugin
MySQL Yes No Plugin Yes Yes No Plugin
PostgreSQL Yes No Plugin Yes No No Plugin
Oracle Yes No Plugin Yes No No Plugin
SQLite No No Plugin Yes No No  
BerkeleyDB No No Plugin No No No  
RCS No No Plugin No No No  
Other PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server None page provider architecture -> several implementations No   No ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-SpamConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory JAAS Yes HTTP Auth, PHP Auth, LDAP, Active Directory, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, ... modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking No Plugin Optional Yes Yes Yes Patch
Mail Encryption Optional Optional Plugin Plugin Yes Optional Yes
nofollow Optional Optional Optional Optional Yes No  
Blacklist No Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CAPTCHA Yes Plugin Yes Plugin Yes Optional No
Delayed Indexing No Optional No No Optional No Patch
Development/SupportConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 34 listed Yes, 33 listed Yes, 1 listed Yes, 63 listed Yes, 9 listed Yes, 13 listed No
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository Source included with commercial license github.com svn.apache.org svn.wikimedia.org wiki.developer.mindtouch.com see moinmo.in zwiki.org
Issue Tracker jira.atlassian.com bugs.splitbrain.org issues.apache.org bugzilla.wikimedia.org bugs.developer.mindtouch.com see moinmo.in zwiki.org
Mailing List www.atlassian.com www.freelists.org www.jspwiki.org lists.wikimedia.org wiki.developer.mindtouch.com see moinmo.in zwiki.org
Support Forum answers.atlassian.com forum.dokuwiki.org please use mailing lists or issue tracker mwusers.com forums.developer.mindtouch.com see moinmo.in zwiki.org
IRC Channel Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com www.dokuwiki.org Freenode: #jspwiki www.mediawiki.org irc.freenode.net. #mindtouch see moinmo.in #zwiki on freenode
Common FeaturesConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Special FeaturesConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Optional
Interface Languages 15 languages
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
55 languages
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10 languages
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
   
Email notification Yes Optional Plugin Optional Yes Yes Yes
Comments Threaded Plugin Flat Discussion Pages Flat Discussion Pages Flat
Categories Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Namespaces Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No
Page Redirection Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Optional
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Page Locking Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Detection
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Yes Patch Patch Plugin Yes Yes  
Structured Data Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Yes No  
LinksConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
CamelCase Yes Optional Yes No No Yes Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Optional
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki No No No No No Yes No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes Yes Optional No Yes Yes  
Page Redirects Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes  
Syntax FeaturesConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
HTML Tags Optional Optional Optional Some All Some Optional
Math formulas Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Plugin
Tables simple + complex simple simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex complex simple + complex
CREOLE support No Plugin Yes No No Yes No
Markdown Support No Plugin No No No No No
Textile Support Yes Plugin No No No No No
BBCode Support No Plugin No No No No No
Emoticon Images Yes Yes Plugin Optional Optional Yes Patch
Syntax Highlighting Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes No
Footnotes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Quoting Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes
Internal Comments Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags Yes Plugin No No Yes No Optional
Scripting Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more Optional, PHP plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy Optional Yes, one can add an unsafe extension and add any scripting language or use DekiScript, which has a Javascript syntax. plugins, see comment ----------------> DTML
Content Includes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Yes No Plugin
UsabilityConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Section Editing No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  
Double-Click Edit No Plugin No Optional No Yes Patch
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
WYSIWYG Editing Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Optional Yes
Auto Signature No Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes
StatisticsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Yes Plugin Yes Yes No Yes No
Orphaned Pages Yes Plugin Yes Yes No Yes Optional
Most/Least Popular Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Optional
Recent Visitors No No No Plugin Yes No Plugin
Analysis Yes Plugin No Optional Yes Yes No
OutputConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
HTML HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.1 HTML 4  
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print View Print CSS Print View
Mobile Friendly Plugin Plugin No No Plugin Yes  
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Abbreviations No Yes No No Yes No  
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes
XML export Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
PDF Export Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Patch
Media and FilesConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Revisions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Embedded Flash Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Embedded Video Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Image Editing Plugin No No No Yes Yes No
SVG Editing Plugin Plugin No No No Yes No
MindMap Editing Plugin Plugin No Plugin Yes No No
Media Search Contents Filenames only Filenames only Keywords Contents Contents Filenames only
ExtrasConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes  
Image Galleries Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Plugin  
Forums Plugin No Yes Plugin Plugin No  
Blogs Yes Plugin Yes No Plugin No  
Ticket System Plugin Plugin No No Plugin No  
Syntax ExamplesConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsJSPWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMindTouch DetailsMoinMoin DetailsZwiki Details
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WYSIWYG with page browse dialog. Or [[link]] and [[../foo/bar]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
WYSIWYG with page browse dialog, auto-linking, and [[http://foo.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
WYSIWYG
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
 
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
WYSIWYG, ctrl-b
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
 
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
WYSIWYG, ctrl-i
''italic''
''emphasised''
 
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
WYSIWYG, ctrl-u
__underline__
 
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
WYSIWYG
`monospaced`
 
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
WYSIWYG
--(strikethrough)--
 
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
WYSIWYG 
^superscript^
 
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
WYSIWYG 
,,subscript,,
 
Images
!attached-image.jpg!
!Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail!
!http://example.com/external-image.jpg!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
WYSIWYG with image browse and edit dialog. Also, copy/paste to editor and straight HTML.
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
 
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}
 Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
WYSIWYG
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
 
Text Indentation  
 N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
WYSIWYG, tab
  indented text
 
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
WYSIWYG
 * Item 1
  * Item 1.1
 * Item 2
 
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
WYSIWYG, ctrl-l
 1. Item 1
  a. Item 1.a
 1. Item 2
 
Definition Lists  
 Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
WYSIWYG
 term:: definition
 
Horizontal Rule
----
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----
----
WYSIWYG
----
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Last updated2011-09-192012-02-012009-11-192011-06-222010-11-232012-02-212008-10-30