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| General Features | Confluence  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 4.0 |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
2.2.19 |
TWiki 5.1.1 |
| Last Release Date |
19th September, 2011 |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
2010-11-10 |
2012-01-17 |
| Author |
Atlassian |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
| URL |
www.atlassian.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL2 |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl, JavaScript |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Database |
Files |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
N/A |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
All |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
| Hosting Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Storage Quota |
10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
100GB/month |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Limits |
No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Own Domain |
 Optional |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+ |
|
none |
none |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
| Datastorage | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server |
None |
No |
Can provide custom data backends |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
| Host Blocking |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Blacklist |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Development/Support | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 34 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 8 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
Source included with commercial license |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
twiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
jira.atlassian.com |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Mailing List |
www.atlassian.com |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
twiki.org |
| Support Forum |
answers.atlassian.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
www.pmichaud.com |
twiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
twiki.org |
| Common Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
No |
| 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 |
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 |
27 languages Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese |
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
 Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Links | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Optional |
Some |
Plugin |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
Plugin |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| 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://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
!attached-image.jpg! !Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail! !http://example.com/external-image.jpg! |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html} |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
: indented line |
-> indented text |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2011-09-19 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2010-11-22 | 2012-04-25 |
