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| General Features | DokuWiki  | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
 2.2.19 |
1.3.1 |
| Last Release Date |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
2010-11-10 |
2011-03-31 |
| Author |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Wikka Development Team |
| URL |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
wikkawiki.org |
| 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 |
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend) |
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
any (platform-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. |
any server with PHP/MySQL support |
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
none |
mod_rewrite (optional) |
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
None |
No |
Can provide custom data backends |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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) |
Active Directory (patch) |
| Host Blocking |
Plugin |
Yes |
 Optional |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 8 listed |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
wush.net |
| Issue Tracker |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
wush.net |
| Mailing List |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
wikkawiki.org |
| Support Forum |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
www.pmichaud.com |
(support requests are handled via mailing list) |
| IRC Channel |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
wikkawiki.org |
| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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 |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
55 languages Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, 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, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, 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 |
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| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
 Patch |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Flat |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| 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 |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Plugin |
Some |
| 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 |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
Plugin |
Extensibility through drop-in plugins |
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Statistics | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
No |
Patch |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Patch |
| Analysis |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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 |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Patch |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Patch |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Patch |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
No |
No |
| Extras | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Forums |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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]] |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced This is a link]] [[forced 日本語]] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
| 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''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
##monospaced## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
++Strike through text++ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
-> indented text |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
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| Last updated | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2010-11-22 | 2011-05-08 |
