WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Version   0.18.1 1.8.200 0.1 1.3
Last Release Date   January 7, 2009 2.0-alpha 7/02/2006 2010-01-01
Author Daniel Mendler David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz Assaph Mehr Bart Masschelein Grass Commons
URL git.awiki.org instiki.org , golem.ph.utexas.edu pimki.rubyforge.org smart-engines.dyndns.org wagn.org
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
License MIT Ruby's Ruby's MIT GPL
Programming Language Ruby Ruby on Rails Ruby Rails Ruby on Rails
Data Storage Files, RCS Database Database Database Database
License Cost/ Fee Free 0 Free   free
Development status Beta Mature Mature Alpha Mature
Intended Audience Private, Public general, education Personal wiki / small groups   small to medium enterprise
Hosting FeaturesGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Storage Quota does not applydoes not applydoes not applydoes not apply1G
Bandwidth Quota does not applydoes not applydoes not applydoes not apply1G
Other Limits does not applydoes not applydoes not applydoes not apply 
Topic Restrictions does not applydoes not applydoes not applydoes not apply 
Corporate Branding does not applydoes not applydoes not applydoes not apply Yes
Own Domain does not applydoes not applydoes not applydoes not apply Optional
Ads allowed does not applydoes not applydoes not applydoes not apply Yes
System RequirementsGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Operating System *nix UNIX, Windows, MacOS X any Windows, Linux, Mac many
Root Access No   No   No
Webserver Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Thin) WEBrick (included), Mongrel, or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger) WEBrick / Mongrel / LigHTTP / Apache Apache, lighttp many
Other Requirements Ruby itex2MML for math support Ruby 1.8.4 + database  
DatastorageGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Text Files Yes No No   No
MySQL No Yes Yes Yes Yes
PostgreSQL No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle No Plugin Yes    
SQLite No Yes Yes Yes  
BerkeleyDB No No      
RCS Yes No No    
Other Git Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used. Pimki 1.x uses Madeleine (binary files). Pimki2 uses SQL databased (SQLite primarily)    
Security/Anti-SpamGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes No Yes Yes
ACL Yes No   Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Plugin system, backends can be added       not yet
Host Blocking Plugin Yes Optional No No
Mail Encryption No   No No No
nofollow No   No No No
Blacklist No Yes Optional No No
CAPTCHA No   No No No
Delayed Indexing No     No No
Development/SupportGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Commercial Support No No No No Yes, 1 listed
Preconfigured Hosting     No No Yes
Code Repository github.com golem.ph.utexas.edu rubyforge.org Subversion github.com
Issue Tracker github.com bug.to rubyforge.org   wagn.org
Mailing List   rubyforge.org rubyforge.org   groups.google.com
Support Forum         wagn.org
IRC Channel         irc.freenode.net#wagn
Common FeaturesGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Preview Plugin No No Yes No
Minor Changes Plugin Yes Yes No No
Change Summary Plugin No No No No
Page History Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all To current To current
Page Index Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Plugin System Yes No     No
Special FeaturesGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes   Yes
Right-to-Left Support Optional Yes Yes   No
Interface Languages Not localized Not localized Not localized   Not localized
Email notification No No No No Yes
Comments No No No No Discussion Pages
Categories Plugin Yes Yes No Yes
Namespaces Yes No Yes No No
Page Redirection Plugin Yes Yes No No
Conflict Handling Conflict Detection Page Locking Page Locking None Conflict Detection
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Yes Yes     No
Structured Data No No     Yes
LinksGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
CamelCase No Optional Yes No No
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks No Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Plugin Yes Yes No No
SisterWiki No No   No No
Image Links No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares No No      
Page Redirects Plugin Yes     No
Syntax FeaturesGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
HTML Tags Plugin All All   All
Math formulas Plugin Yes Optional   No
Tables simple simple + complex simple simple complex
CREOLE support Plugin No     No
Markdown Support Plugin Yes Yes   No
Textile Support Plugin Yes Yes Yes No
BBCode Support No No No   No
Emoticon Images No No No   No
Syntax Highlighting Plugin Yes Yes   Plugin
Footnotes Plugin Yes Yes   No
Quoting No Yes Yes   Optional
Internal Comments No Yes No   No
Custom styles Yes Yes Yes   Yes
FAQ Tags No No     No
Scripting XML based None     WQL
Content Includes Yes Yes Yes   Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes No No Yes Plugin
UsabilityGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Section Editing Plugin No No No Yes
Page Templates No No     Yes
Double-Click Edit No No Yes No Yes
Toolbar No No No No Yes
WYSIWYG Editing No No No No Yes
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes No No
Auto Signature No Yes No Yes Yes
StatisticsGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Orphaned Pages No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Most/Least Popular No No No No No
Recent Visitors No No No No No
Analysis No No   No No
OutputGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
HTML XHTML 1.1 XHTML 1.1 XHTML 1.1    
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes   Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print View Print View   Print CSS
Mobile Friendly No       Yes
Themes & Skins Yes No Yes   Yes
RSS Feeds Plugin No Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Plugin Yes     No
Abbreviations No Yes Yes   No
Auto-TOC Plugin Yes No   Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes   No
HTML Export No Yes Yes   No
XML export No No No   No
PDF Export No No Optional   No
Media and FilesGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Patch   Yes
Media Revisions Yes No No   No
Embedded Flash No No No   Yes
Embedded Video No Yes No   Yes
Image Editing No No No   No
SVG Editing Yes Yes Yes   No
MindMap Editing No No Yes   No
Media Search Filenames only No Filenames only   Filenames only
ExtrasGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Calendar No No     No
Image Galleries Yes No     No
Forums No No     No
Blogs No No     No
Ticket System No No     Yes
Syntax ExamplesGit-Wiki DetailsInstiki DetailsPimki DetailsRiki DetailsWagn Details
Internal Link 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
 
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
     
[[page|text]]
External Link 
[[http://example.org|The title]]
 
[another site](http://example.com)
     
[[http://page.com|text]]
Headlines 
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
 
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
     
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
      
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
_italic_, *italic*
      
Underline Format   
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
      
Monospace Format   
`monospace`
      
Strikethrough Format   
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
      
Superscript Format   
<sup>superscript</sup>
      
Subscript Format   
<sub>subscript</sub>
      
Images 
{{Image.png}}
 
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
      
Aligning Text   
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
      
Text Indentation   
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
      
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
 
1. Item 1
   1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
      
Definition Lists   
term
: definition
      
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
***
      
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