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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Instiki  | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 0.19.3 |
1.17.0 |
phpwiki-1.3.14 |
2.2.19 |
| Last Release Date |
2011-08-31 |
2011-06-22 |
2007-07-01 |
2010-11-10 |
| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau |
Patrick R. Michaud |
| URL |
golem.ph.utexas.edu |
www.mediawiki.org |
phpwiki.sourceforge.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Ruby's |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL2 |
| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Files, DB, RCS |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
general, education |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Any |
All |
| System Requirements | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
| Root Access |
|
 No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Mongrel (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger) |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7 or 1.9.2; Rubygems 1.3.6 or later |
none |
various opt. helpers |
none |
| Datastorage | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
 Plugin |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used. |
No |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) |
Can provide custom data backends |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
|
Yes |
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
 Optional |
| Mail Encryption |
|
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| nofollow |
|
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| CAPTCHA |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 58 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 7 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
golem.ph.utexas.edu |
svn.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
| Issue Tracker |
bug.to |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
rubyforge.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
| Support Forum |
rubyforge.org |
mwusers.com |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
#phpwiki |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
| Common Features | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
No |
Yes |
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 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
| 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 |
9 languages German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
27 languages Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese |
| Email notification |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
| Comments |
No |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
No |
Plugin |
 Patch |
Yes |
| Links | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Some |
Some |
Plugin |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Markdown Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
No |
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
None |
Optional |
plugins, templates, PHP |
Plugin |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Patch |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Output | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Embedded Flash |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Media Search |
No |
Keywords |
No |
No |
| Extras | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
<center>Centered</center> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
: indented line |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or |
-> indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# list |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2011-09-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2009-04-03 | 2010-11-22 |
