WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
Version 2009-12-25 1.15.0 2.2.0 0.5.0
Last Release Date 2009-12-25 2009-06-10 2009-01-18 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 RequirementsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
Operating System Linux, 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, Lighttpd, 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  
DatastorageDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi 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  
Security/Anti-SpamDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi 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)  
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/SupportDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
Commercial Support Yes, 24 listed Yes, 47 listed Yes, 7 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 FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
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 Yes
Special FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi 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		 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 Plugin Yes  
Structured Data Plugin Plugin Yes  
LinksDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
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 Yes Yes  
Syntax FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
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 Plugin Yes Yes Patch
FAQ Tags No No Yes No
Scripting Optional, PHP Optional Plugin  
Content Includes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Plugin Plugin Patch
UsabilityDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
Section Editing Yes Yes Plugin No
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes  
Double-Click Edit No Optional Plugin Yes
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Patch
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Plugin Plugin No
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes No
StatisticsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi 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 No
Recent Visitors No Plugin Plugin No
Analysis Plugin Optional Plugin No
OutputDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi 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 CSS
Mobile Friendly No No Plugin  
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Optional
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes Yes No
Abbreviations Yes No Plugin No
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Plugin  
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Plugin No
XML export No Yes Plugin No
PDF Export Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Media and FilesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Optional Plugin
Media Revisions No Yes Optional  
Embedded Flash Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Embedded Video Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Editing No No Plugin No
SVG Editing Plugin No Plugin No
MindMap Editing Plugin Plugin   No
Media Search Filenames only Keywords No No
ExtrasDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Plugin  
Image Galleries Plugin Yes Plugin  
Forums No Plugin    
Blogs Plugin No Plugin  
Ticket System No No Plugin  
Syntax ExamplesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsWikiNi 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]]
 
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
[http://example.org The title]
 
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
 
[[ ]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
 
'''bold'''
 
** **
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
''italic''
 
''italic''
 
// //
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
{+underlined+}
 
__ __
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
@@monospace@@
 
## ##
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<s>strikethrough</s>
 
{-strikethrough-}
 
@@ @@
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
'^superscript^'
  
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
'_subscript_'
  
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
[[Image:wiki.png]]
 
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
  
Aligning Text 
 N/A
 
<center>Centered</center>
 
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
  
Text Indentation 
 N/A
 
: indented line
 
-> indented text
 
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists 
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
 -
 -
 -
Numbered Lists 
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
 1)
 1)
 1)
Definition Lists 
 Plugin
 
; term : definition
 
: term : definition
  
Horizontal Rule 
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Last updated2010-01-052009-06-102009-01-222009-02-10