| General Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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1.45.3
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0.30.0
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
|
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Atlassian
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPL
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Ruby's
|
| Programming Language |
Java
|
PHP
|
Ruby on Rails
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
general, education
|
| Hosting Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
|
Any with PHP support
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
none
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
| Datastorage | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Yes
|
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
506 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
Optional
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | MediaWiki | Instiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
_italic_, *italic* |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> 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 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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