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| General Features | IkeWiki  | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.0rc5 |
1.17.0 |
| Last Release Date |
15.02.2008 |
2011-06-22 |
| Author |
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
ikewiki.salzburgresearch.at |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Beta |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Advanced Users, Developers, Scientists |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| System Requirements | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
All/Java |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
| Webserver |
Tomcat |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
PostgreSQL |
none |
| Datastorage | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
| Other |
Jena RDF Storage |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
|
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
No |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
 Plugin |
| nofollow |
No |
 Optional |
| Blacklist |
No |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
No |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 58 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
|
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
sourceforge.net |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
sourceforge.net |
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
sourceforge.net |
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
No |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
|
Yes |
| Special Features | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
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, 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 |
No |
Optional |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
No |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
None |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Plugin |
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
| Links | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
No |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
No |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Some |
| Math formulas |
No |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
|
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
No |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
 Patch |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
yes; SPARQL and JRuby |
Optional |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Optional |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
No |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
No |
Optional |
| Output | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
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 |
No |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
| Extras | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
|
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
|
Yes |
| Forums |
|
Plugin |
| Blogs |
|
No |
| Ticket System |
|
No |
| Syntax Examples | IkeWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Link]] [[Link|Label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [http://www.example.com | Label] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
via WYSIWYG |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
via WYSIWYG |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
via WYSIWYG |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
via WYSIWYG |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
via WYSIWYG |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
via WYSIWYG |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
via WYSIWYG |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
via WYSIWYG |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[ Image:MyImage.ipg ]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
via WYSIWYG |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
via WYSIWYG |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
via WYSIWYG |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
via WYSIWYG |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
via WYSIWYG |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
via WYSIWYG |
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| Last updated | 2008-02-20 | 2011-06-22 |