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| General Features | DokuWiki  | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2009-02-14b |
1.15.0 |
1.4.7_notb |
| Last Release Date |
2009-02-14 |
2009-06-10 |
2006-10-21 |
| Author |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
PukiWiki Developers Team |
| URL |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
pukiwiki.sourceforge.jp |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
One theme, one PukiWiki |
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
OS independent |
| 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 |
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension. |
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
|
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
None |
No |
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension) |
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL |
Yes |
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
 Optional |
Plugin |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 20 listed |
Yes, 37 listed |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
dev.splitbrain.org |
svn.wikimedia.org |
cvs.sourceforge.jp |
| Issue Tracker |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
pukiwiki.sourceforge.jp |
| Mailing List |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.jp |
| Support Forum |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
pukiwiki.sourceforge.jp%E8%B3%AA%E5%95%8F%E7%AE%B13 |
| IRC Channel |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pukiwiki |
| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
To current |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Interface Languages |
46 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, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, 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, 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 |
5 languages German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
 Patch |
Plugin |
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| 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 |
Patch |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Plugin |
| 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 |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS) |
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Patch |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Statistics | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Output | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.1 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
No |
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
No |
Keywords |
No |
| Extras | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Calendar |
No |
Plugin |
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Forums |
No |
Plugin |
|
| Blogs |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PukiWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
'''italic''' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
%%%underlined%%% |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
%%strikethrough%% |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
+ Item 1 ++ Item 1.1 + Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
:term|definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-05-27 | 2009-06-10 | 2009-04-20 |
