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| General Features | DokuWiki  | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
2012-10-13 "Adora Belle" |
1.20.1 |
10.1, 9.4 LTS and 6.10 LTS |
 0.11.5 |
| Last Release Date |
2012-10-13 |
2012-11-30 |
2013-02-09 |
02/17/2009 |
| Author |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Tiki Software Community Association |
Edgewall Software |
| URL |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
tiki.org |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
LGPL |
Modified BSD license |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Python |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Database |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
| Intended Audience |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. |
Software development teams |
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Works on standard shared hosting |
Apache, Standalone (builtin) |
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
None |
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL |
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
None |
No |
MariaDB |
0 |
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant) |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
 Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 36 listed |
Yes, 69 listed |
Yes, 54 listed |
Yes, 4 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Issue Tracker |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
dev.tiki.org |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Mailing List |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Support Forum |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
tiki.org |
|
| IRC Channel |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
irc://irc.freenode.org/tikiwiki |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| 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 | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
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 |
34 languages Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
141 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, Javanese, 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 |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Optional |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| BBCode Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
yes, using Python |
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Usability | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Analysis |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Output | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
Contents |
No |
| Extras | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Forums |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
|
| 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 | 2012-10-14 | 2012-11-30 | 2013-02-19 | 2009-09-04 |
