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| General Features | Confluence  | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
 3.3 |
1.16.0 |
| Last Release Date |
7 July 2010 |
2010-07-28 |
| Author |
Atlassian |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
www.atlassian.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| Hosting Features | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
100GB/month |
does not apply |
| Other Limits |
No |
does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
No |
does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Own Domain |
 Optional |
does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
does not apply |
| System Requirements | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Tomcat, Resin, Weblogic, JBoss, Websphere |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
Java 5 |
none |
| Datastorage | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
| Oracle |
Yes |
|
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
| Other |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
No |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
 Plugin |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
| Blacklist |
No |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 30 listed |
Yes, 52 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
Source included with commercial license |
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
jira.atlassian.com |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
www.atlassian.com |
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
forums.atlassian.com |
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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 |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Links | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Optional |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
Optional |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Optional |
| Output | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
| Extras | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
!attached-image.jpg! !Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail! !http://example.com/external-image.jpg! |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html} |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2010-07-16 | 2010-07-28 |