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| General Features | DokuWiki  | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
R5.0.rc2 |
 Last Release Date |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
2012-02-06 |
| Author |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
WackoWiki Team |
| URL |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
wackowiki.sourceforge.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
BSD |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
 none |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop |
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, 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 |
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice |
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
database |
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
None |
No |
DB abstraction with PDO |
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
LDAP (patch) |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
 Optional |
Plugin |
Optional |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 32 listed |
Yes, 62 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
wackowiki.hg.sourceforge.net |
| Issue Tracker |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
wackowiki.sourceforge.net |
| Mailing List |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
groups.google.com |
| Support Forum |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
wackowiki.sourceforge.net |
| IRC Channel |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
wackowiki.sourceforge.net |
| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Right-to-Left Support |
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 |
14 languages Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Moldavian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Flat |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
 Patch |
Plugin |
Patch |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| 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 |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple |
| CREOLE support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
Plugin |
No |
Patch |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
Patch |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
actions |
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Output | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
Contents |
| Extras | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://wackowiki.org [[http://wackowiki.org Wacko Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
== Top Level Heading== === Smaller Heading== ====== Smallest Heading== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| 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> |
vvsubscriptvv |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
((image.png)) file:image.png http://url.tld/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
|
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2012-02-05 |
