WikiMatrix

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General FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Version 2009-12-25 1.16.0 2.2.0 R4.3
Last Release Date 2009-12-25 2010-07-28 2009-01-18 2008-09-28
Author Andreas Gohr Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. Patrick R. Michaud WackoWiki Team
URL www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org www.pmwiki.org wackowiki.org
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL 2 GPL GPL2 BSD
Programming Language PHP PHP PHP PHP
Data Storage Files Database Files Database
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 none
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience private, small to medium companies End Users/Desktop, Education All Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System RequirementsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Operating System Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others *nix, Windows, Mac OS X UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others OS Independent
Root Access No No No No
Webserver 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. run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements   none none database
DatastorageDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Text Files Yes No Yes No
MySQL No Yes Plugin Yes
PostgreSQL No Yes No No
Oracle No   No No
SQLite No Yes No No
BerkeleyDB No No No No
RCS No No No No
Other None No Can provide custom data backends DB abstraction with PDO
Security/Anti-SpamDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes No Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory Yes .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) LDAP (patch)
Host Blocking Plugin Yes Optional No
Mail Encryption Optional Plugin Plugin Optional
nofollow Optional Optional Yes No
Blacklist Optional Yes Optional Yes
CAPTCHA Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes
Delayed Indexing Optional No No No
Development/SupportDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 28 listed Yes, 52 listed Yes, 7 listed Yes, 1 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository dev.splitbrain.org svn.wikimedia.org svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest wackowiki.hg.sourceforge.net
Issue Tracker bugs.splitbrain.org bugzilla.wikimedia.org www.pmwiki.org bugs.wackowiki.org
Mailing List www.freelists.org lists.wikimedia.org www.pmichaud.com groups.google.com
Support Forum forum.dokuwiki.org mwusers.com www.pmichaud.com forum.wackowiki.org
IRC Channel www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org #pmwiki on irc.freenode.net  
Common FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes Yes No
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes No
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 Yes Yes
Special FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes No
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes    
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		 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		 14 languages
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Moldavian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian
Email notification Optional Optional Optional Yes
Comments Plugin Discussion Pages Plugin Flat
Categories Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Namespaces Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirection Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Page Locking
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Patch Plugin Yes Patch
Structured Data Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin
LinksDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
CamelCase Optional No Optional Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki No No No No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes No Yes Yes
Page Redirects Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Syntax FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
HTML Tags Optional Some Plugin All
Math formulas Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin
Tables simple simple + complex simple + complex simple
CREOLE support Plugin No Optional No
Markdown Support Plugin No Plugin No
Textile Support Plugin No No No
BBCode Support Plugin No No No
Emoticon Images Yes Optional Plugin Patch
Syntax Highlighting Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
Footnotes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Quoting Yes No Plugin Yes
Internal Comments Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Plugin Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No No Yes No
Scripting Optional, PHP Optional Plugin actions
Content Includes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
UsabilityDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Section Editing Yes Yes Plugin No
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes  
Double-Click Edit No Optional Plugin Yes
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes Yes
StatisticsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Plugin Yes Optional Yes
Orphaned Pages Plugin Yes Optional Yes
Most/Least Popular No Yes No Yes
Recent Visitors No Plugin Plugin No
Analysis Plugin Optional Plugin Plugin
OutputDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print View Print View
Mobile Friendly No No Plugin No
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes Yes No
Abbreviations Yes No Plugin No
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Plugin Yes
XML export No Yes Plugin Yes
PDF Export Plugin Plugin Plugin No
Media and FilesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Optional Yes
Media Revisions No Yes Optional No
Embedded Flash Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
Embedded Video Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes
Image Editing No No Plugin No
SVG Editing Plugin No Plugin No
MindMap Editing Plugin Plugin   Plugin
Media Search Filenames only Keywords No Contents
ExtrasDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Galleries Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin
Forums No Plugin   No
Blogs Plugin No Plugin Plugin
Ticket System No No Plugin No
Syntax ExamplesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Internal Link 
[[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]]
 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
[http://example.org The title]
 
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
 
http://wackowiki.org
[[http://wackowiki.org Wacko Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
== Top Level Heading==
=== Smaller Heading==
====== Smallest Heading==
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
 
'''bold'''
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
''italic''
 
''italic''
 
//italics//
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
{+underlined+}
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
@@monospace@@
 
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<s>strikethrough</s>
 
{-strikethrough-}
 
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
'^superscript^'
 
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
'_subscript_'
 
vvsubscriptvv
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
[[Image:wiki.png]]
 
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
 
((image.png))
file:image.png
http://url.tld/image.png
Aligning Text 
 N/A
 
<center>Centered</center>
 
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
 
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")content%%
Text Indentation 
 N/A
 
: indented line
 
-> indented text
 
  one
    two
Bulleted Lists 
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
  *one
    **One-two
  *two
  *three
Numbered Lists 
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
  1. numbered List
    1. numbered List-2
    2.#8 numbered List, with break
Definition Lists 
 Plugin
 
; term : definition
 
: term : definition
  
Horizontal Rule 
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Last updated2010-01-052010-07-282009-01-222010-05-25