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| General Features | DokuWiki  | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2008-05-05 |
1.11.1 |
2.2.0 |
0.5.0 |
| Last Release Date |
2008-05-05 |
2008-01-24 |
2007-01-22 |
4/12/2007 |
| Author |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Patrick R. Michaud |
|
| URL |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
www.wikini.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL2 |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Database |
Files |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...) |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
All |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X) |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Lighttp, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
|
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
none |
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
 Optional |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
Optional |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
None |
No |
Can provide custom data backends |
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL |
Yes |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
 Patch |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 13 listed |
Yes, 27 listed |
Yes, 6 listed |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Code Repository |
dev.splitbrain.org |
svn.wikimedia.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
|
| Issue Tracker |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
|
| Mailing List |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
|
| Support Forum |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
www.pmichaud.com |
|
| IRC Channel |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| 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 |
Restricted by Age |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Special Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Interface Languages |
44 languages Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
137 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, 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 |
28 languages Catalan, , Danish, English, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Breton, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Sinhalese, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Tamil, Vietnamese |
Not localized |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Patch |
|
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| Structured Data |
Plugin |
|
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| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| 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 |
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
|
|
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| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikiNi |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| 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 |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Custom styles |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| FAQ Tags |
No |