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General FeaturesGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Version 1.5.1 2.1.1 2012-01-25 "Angua" 1.0
Last Release Date 2006-05-24 2004-05-14 2012-01-25 September 12, 2003
Author Gregor Richards Frank Carver Andreas Gohr Clifford Adams
URL giki.sourceforge.net sourceforge.net www.dokuwiki.org www.usemod.com
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL ASL or LGPL GPL 2 GPL
Programming Language PHP Java PHP Perl
Data Storage Files Files Files Files
License Cost/ Fee Free 0 0 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience General. Known to be used for both private and internal corporate sites. private users and small teams private, small to medium companies  
System RequirementsGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Operating System Any Any that can run Java 1.3 or later Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access No No No No
Webserver Any (supporting PHP) Any that can run or call Java Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements None Java 1.3 or later    
DatastorageGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Text Files Yes Yes Yes Yes
MySQL No No No No
PostgreSQL No No No No
Oracle No No No No
SQLite No No No No
BerkeleyDB No No No No
RCS No No No No
Other None   None No
Security/Anti-SpamGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Page Permissions Yes No Yes Yes
ACL Yes No Yes No
Authentication Backends Yes: PAM, LDAP   Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory  
Host Blocking No Patch Plugin Yes
Mail Encryption Yes No Optional  
nofollow No Optional Optional Patch
Blacklist No No Optional Patch
CAPTCHA No No Plugin No
Delayed Indexing No No Optional No
Development/SupportGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Commercial Support No No Yes, 33 listed Yes, 1 listed
Preconfigured Hosting No   Yes  
Code Repository svn.sourceforge.net   github.com  
Issue Tracker sourceforge.net   bugs.splitbrain.org  
Mailing List None   www.freelists.org  
Support Forum sourceforge.net   forum.dokuwiki.org  
IRC Channel None   www.dokuwiki.org  
Common FeaturesGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Preview Yes No Yes Yes
Minor Changes No No Yes Yes
Change Summary No No 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  
Special FeaturesGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Optional   Yes  
Interface Languages 5 languages
English, Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish		   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		  
Email notification Plugin No Optional  
Comments No No Plugin No
Categories No   Plugin  
Namespaces No   Yes  
Page Redirection Plugin   Plugin  
Conflict Handling None None Page Locking Conflict Detection
Search Not available Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming     Patch  
Structured Data     Plugin  
LinksGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
CamelCase Plugin Yes Optional Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks No Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Plugin Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki No No No Yes
Image Links Yes Optional Yes Yes
Windows Shares No No Yes No
Page Redirects     Plugin  
Syntax FeaturesGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
HTML Tags Optional None Optional Some
Math formulas No No Plugin No
Tables complex complex simple simple
CREOLE support     Plugin  
Markdown Support No Optional Plugin No
Textile Support No Optional Plugin No
BBCode Support Plugin Optional Plugin No
Emoticon Images No Optional Yes No
Syntax Highlighting No Optional Yes No
Footnotes No No Yes No
Quoting No No Yes No
Internal Comments No No Plugin No
Custom styles Yes Yes Plugin No
FAQ Tags No No Plugin No
Scripting No   Optional, PHP None
Content Includes Plugin No Plugin  
Feed Aggregation No No Yes  
UsabilityGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Section Editing No No Yes No
Page Templates     Yes  
Double-Click Edit No No Plugin No
Toolbar Plugin No Yes No
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin No Plugin No
Access Keys No   Yes  
Auto Signature No No Yes No
StatisticsGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Recent Changes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages No No Plugin Patch
Orphaned Pages No No Plugin Patch
Most/Least Popular No No No No
Recent Visitors No Yes No No
Analysis No No Plugin No
OutputGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
HTML HTML 4   XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 3
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly No No Print CSS No
Mobile Friendly     Plugin  
Themes & Skins Yes Optional Yes No
RSS Feeds No No Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds No No Yes No
Abbreviations No No Yes No
Auto-TOC Plugin No Yes Yes
Raw Export Yes No Yes No
HTML Export No No Yes No
XML export No No No No
PDF Export No No Plugin No
Media and FilesGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
File Attachments Optional No Yes Optional
Media Revisions No No Yes No
Embedded Flash No No Yes No
Embedded Video No No Plugin No
Image Editing No   No  
SVG Editing No   Plugin  
MindMap Editing No   Plugin  
Media Search No No Filenames only No
ExtrasGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Calendar     Plugin  
Image Galleries     Plugin  
Forums     No  
Blogs     Plugin  
Ticket System     Plugin  
Syntax ExamplesGiki DetailsFriki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Internal Link 
[Page being linked to]
[Text of link|Node title]
   
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
  
External Link 
[http://URL/]
[Text of|http://URL/]
[:localURL.html]
[Text of|:localURL.html]
   
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
  
Headlines 
HTML:
<h1>...</h1>
<h2>...</h2>

GWS:
=H1=
==H2==
===H3===
   
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format 
HTML:
<b>Bold</b>

GWS:
##Bold##
 
'''bold''
 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
Italics Format 
HTML:
<i>Italic</i>

GWS:
//Italic//
 
''italic''
 
//italics//
 
''italic''
Underline Format 
HTML:
<u>Underline</u>

GWS:
__Underline__
   
__underlined__
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
HTML:
<tt>Monospace</tt>
(others)

GWS:
{{Monospace}}
 
 monospace
 
''monospace''
 
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format 
HTML only
   
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
 N/A
Superscript Format 
HTML only
   
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
HTML only
   
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
[img:filename.png]
 
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text 
(No complex alignment suported w/o HTML)
   
 Plugin
 
 N/A
Text Indentation 
(No complex indentation suported w/o HTML)
 
    :        indented
 
 N/A
 
: indented
Bulleted Lists 
HTML:
<ul>
<li>A</li>
<li>B</li>
</ul>

GWS:
* A
* B
 
    * first
    * second
 
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
HTML:
<ol>
<li>A</li>
<li>B</li>
</ol>

GWS:
# A
# B
 
    1. first
    1. second
 
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists 
 N/A
 
    title:        description
 
 Plugin
 
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule     
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