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| General Features | DokuWiki  | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2009-12-25 |
1.15.0 |
1.0 |
does not apply |
| Last Release Date |
2009-12-25 |
2009-06-10 |
September 12, 2003 |
does not apply |
| Author |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Clifford Adams |
Philip Neustrom |
| URL |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.usemod.com |
wikispot.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| License |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL |
does not apply |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
does not apply |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Database |
Files |
does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Free |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
|
Communities / Interest Groups / Non-Profits |
| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |  No |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | Non-Commercial |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |  Optional |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, Windows, MacOS X |
does not apply |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, probably anything with CGI support |
does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
|
does not apply |
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
does not apply |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| Oracle |
No |
|
No |
does not apply |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Other |
None |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
|
does not apply |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Plugin |
|
Optional |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
 Patch |
No |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
Patch |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 24 listed |
Yes, 47 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
|
does not apply |
| Code Repository |
dev.splitbrain.org |
svn.wikimedia.org |
|
does not apply |
| Issue Tracker |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
wikispot.org |
| Mailing List |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
|
wikispot.org |
| Support Forum |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
|
wikispot.org |
| IRC Channel |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
|
wikispot.org |
| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| 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 |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
|
No |
| Special Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Optional |
| Interface Languages |
51 languages Afrikaans, Arabic, 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, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, 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 |
|
Not localized |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
|
No |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
No |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
No |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Patch |
Plugin |
|
does not apply |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Some |
None |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
Plugin |
No |
|
No |
| Markdown Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
None |
none |
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Usability | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
|
No |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Patch |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Patch |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Output | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 3 |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
No |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
No |
|
Optional |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
|
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
|
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
No |
No |
| Extras | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
No |
| Forums |
No |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
No |
|
No |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
|
No |
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod | Wiki Spot |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
["Front Page"] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
[http://www.example.com] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== ====== Level 6 ====== |
= Headline = == SubHeading == |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
'''Bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''Italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__Underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
{{{Monospace}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
--XStrikethroughX-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://url.com/pic.gif |
[[Image(filename)]] [[Image(filename, right, thumbnail, 400, noborder)]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
|
-->Center<-- |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
: indented |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
;Term:Definition |
name :: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
|
---- |
| Last updated | 2010-01-05 | 2009-06-10 | 2009-07-01 | 2009-12-27 |
A space before a paragraph causes it to indent; more spaces cause further indent.