WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Version 2009-12-25 1.15.0 phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date 2009-12-25 2009-06-10 2007-07-01
Author Andreas Gohr Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org phpwiki.sourceforge.net
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes
License GPL 2 GPL GPL
Programming Language PHP PHP PHP
Data Storage Files Database Files, DB, RCS
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience private, small to medium companies End Users/Desktop, Education Any
System RequirementsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Operating System Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others *nix, Windows, Mac OS X UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access No No No
Webserver Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support Any with PHP support Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements   none various opt. helpers
DatastorageDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Text Files Yes No Yes
MySQL No Yes Yes
PostgreSQL No Yes Yes
Oracle No   Yes
SQLite No Yes Yes
BerkeleyDB No No Yes
RCS No No Yes
Other None No gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-SpamDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes No Yes
Authentication Backends Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory Yes db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking Plugin Yes No
Mail Encryption Optional Plugin No
nofollow Optional Optional Yes
Blacklist Optional Yes Yes
CAPTCHA Plugin Plugin Yes
Delayed Indexing Optional No No
Development/SupportDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 24 listed Yes, 47 listed Yes, 1 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes No
Code Repository dev.splitbrain.org svn.wikimedia.org sf.net
Issue Tracker bugs.splitbrain.org bugzilla.wikimedia.org sf.net
Mailing List www.freelists.org lists.wikimedia.org sf.net
Support Forum forum.dokuwiki.org mwusers.com sf.net
IRC Channel www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org #phpwiki
Common FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes Yes
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes
Special FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes No
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
9 languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification Optional Optional Yes
Comments Plugin Discussion Pages Plugin
Categories Plugin Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes No
Page Redirection Plugin Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Patch Plugin Yes
Structured Data Plugin Plugin Patch
LinksDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
CamelCase Optional No Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki No No No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes No Yes
Page Redirects Plugin Yes Yes
Syntax FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
HTML Tags Optional Some Some
Math formulas Plugin Yes Plugin
Tables simple simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support Plugin No No
Markdown Support Plugin No No
Textile Support Plugin No No
BBCode Support Plugin No No
Emoticon Images Yes Optional No
Syntax Highlighting Yes Plugin Plugin
Footnotes Yes Yes Yes
Quoting Yes No Yes
Internal Comments Plugin Yes Yes
Custom styles Plugin Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No No No
Scripting Optional, PHP Optional plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes Plugin Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Plugin Yes
UsabilityDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Section Editing Yes Yes No
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit No Optional Optional
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Plugin Patch
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes
StatisticsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Plugin Yes Yes
Orphaned Pages Plugin Yes Yes
Most/Least Popular No Yes Yes
Recent Visitors No Plugin Yes
Analysis Plugin Optional Plugin
OutputDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS
Mobile Friendly No No No
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes No
Abbreviations Yes No No
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes
XML export No Yes No
PDF Export Plugin Plugin Yes
Media and FilesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes
Media Revisions No Yes Yes
Embedded Flash Yes Plugin Yes
Embedded Video Plugin Plugin Yes
Image Editing No No No
SVG Editing Plugin No No
MindMap Editing Plugin Plugin No
Media Search Filenames only Keywords No
ExtrasDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Yes
Image Galleries Plugin Yes Yes
Forums No Plugin Yes
Blogs Plugin No Yes
Ticket System No No No
Syntax ExamplesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
  external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
  view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
  view and link to another image
Aligning Text
 N/A
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
 N/A
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
   paragraph
     and another level 
Bulleted Lists
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
  or
- list
Numbered Lists
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
 Plugin
; term : definition
Term:<def>
  def
Horizontal Rule
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Last updated2010-01-052009-06-102009-04-03