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Feature Comparison
| General Features | FlexWiki  | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.0.0.199 |
1.15.0 |
| Last Release Date |
14/2/2008 |
2009-06-10 |
| Author |
Microsoft |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
www.flexwiki.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Common Public License (CPL) |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
C# |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files, DB |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
|
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| System Requirements | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 or 2008, LINUX |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
Yes |
 No |
| Webserver |
IIS (ASP.NET), APACHE (MONO) |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
None |
none |
| Datastorage | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
|
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
| Other |
SQL Server 2000, 2005 or Express |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
Windows, Forms (ASPNET Providers) |
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
 Plugin |
| nofollow |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 37 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
flexwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
sourceforge.net |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
lists.sourceforge.net |
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
|
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
No |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
|
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
Not localized |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
| Comments |
No |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Plugin |
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
| Links | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
No |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin |
Some |
| Math formulas |
No |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
yes; WikiTallk |
Optional |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
No |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
No |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
No |
Optional |
| Output | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
No |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
No |
Keywords |
| Extras | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
|
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
|
Yes |
| Forums |
|
Plugin |
| Blogs |
|
No |
| Ticket System |
|
No |
| Syntax Examples | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
HomePage |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
"WikiMatrix":http:://www.wikimatrix.org |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
!Heading 1 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* or '''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italics here'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
+underline text+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough text- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^super^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~sub~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
http://whatever/path/file.jpg http://whatever/path/file.gif etc. |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| 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 | 2009-06-10 |
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