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Feature Comparison
| General Features | FlexWiki  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.0.0.199 |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
0.1.3 |
| Last Release Date |
14/2/2008 |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
03/06/2008 |
| Author |
Microsoft |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Thibaut Colar(tcolar-wiki AT colar DOT net) |
| URL |
www.flexwiki.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.jotwiki.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Common Public License (CPL) |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL for non commercial uses |
| Programming Language |
C# |
PHP |
PHP |
java |
| Data Storage |
Files, DB |
Files |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free |
0 |
0 |
Free for non commercial uses (ie: no resell) |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
| Intended Audience |
|
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
any |
| System Requirements | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 or 2008, LINUX |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
any (java) |
| Root Access |
Yes |
 No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
IIS (ASP.NET), APACHE (MONO) |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Any j2ee engine: : jetty, tomcat etc... |
| Other Requirements |
None |
|
none |
java 1.4+ |
| Datastorage | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
SQL Server 2000, 2005 or Express |
None |
No |
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Windows, Forms (ASPNET Providers) |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
builtin DB |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
 Optional |
Plugin |
Optional |
| nofollow |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Development/Support | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
|
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Code Repository |
flexwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
jotwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
| Issue Tracker |
sourceforge.net |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
| Mailing List |
lists.sourceforge.net |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
| Support Forum |
|
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
sourceforge.net |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
|
| Common Features | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Change Summary |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Restricted by Age |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
No |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Special Features | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Interface Languages |
Not localized |
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 |
|
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
No |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Flat |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
 Patch |
Plugin |
|
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Links | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin |
Optional |
Some |
All |
| Math formulas |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
yes; WikiTallk |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
regular html, javascript |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Usability | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Toolbar |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Access Keys |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
| Output | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
Plugin |
No |
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
No |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
Filenames only |
| Extras | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Calendar |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Image Galleries |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Forums |
|
No |
Plugin |
|
| Blogs |
|
Plugin |
No |
|
| Ticket System |
|
Plugin |
No |
|
| Syntax Examples | FlexWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | JOTWiki |
| Internal Link |
HomePage |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[My Other Page]] [[My Other Page#section_3]] [[page_23 | My Other Page]] [[other_namespace:pagex]] |
| External Link |
"WikiMatrix":http:://www.wikimatrix.org |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://www.google.com]] [[http://www.google.com | Google]] [[file://c:\tmp\] [[mailto:john@doe.com]] |
| Headlines |
!Heading 1 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
======Largest====== ===== 2 ===== ====Medium==== === 4 === ==smallest== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* or '''bold''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
** bold text ** |
| Italics Format |
''italics here'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
// italic format // |
| Underline Format |
+underline text+ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__ underlined format __ |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''' monospace (code) ''' |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough text- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del> striked through </del> |
| Superscript Format |
^super^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
~sub~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub> sub text </sub> |
| Images |
http://whatever/path/file.jpg http://whatever/path/file.gif etc. |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{image.jpg}}
{{ image.jpg }} (centered)
{{image.jpg }} (aligned right) |
| Aligning Text |
Use a span or div witha class and custom css |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
Use a span or div witha class and custom css |
|
: 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 | 2008-02-19 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2008-03-06 |
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