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Feature Comparison
| General Features | JAMWiki  | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
 1.3.2 |
1.20.1 |
| Last Release Date |
05-May-2013 |
2012-11-30 |
| Author |
Ryan Holliday |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
jamwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files, DB |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Anyone |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| System Requirements | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any OS supporting Java 5 or greater |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
|
 No |
| Webserver |
Any application server supporting Java servlet 2.4 or greater |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
| Datastorage | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
| Oracle |
Yes |
Yes |
| SQLite |
|
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
|
No |
| RCS |
|
No |
| Other |
Any JDBC 3.0 (or greater) compliant database should be supported in ANSI SQL mode. Support for sites without an external database is provided using an embedded version of the HSQL database. |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
Spring Security |
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
 Plugin |
| nofollow |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 69 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.sourceforge.net |
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
jira.jamwiki.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
lists.sourceforge.net |
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
jamwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
No |
Yes |
| Special Features | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
23 languages Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
Discussion Pages |
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 | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
No |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
| Math formulas |
No |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
|
No |
| Markdown Support |
|
No |
| Textile Support |
|
No |
| BBCode Support |
|
No |
| Emoticon Images |
No |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
|
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Plugin |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Mediawiki templates are supported. |
Optional |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
No |
Plugin |
| Usability | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Optional |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
No |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | JAMWiki | 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 | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
|
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
No |
| Themes & Skins |
No |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Optional |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Optional |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
No |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
No |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
No |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
No |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
| Extras | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
No |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
No |
No |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
| Syntax Examples | JAMWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Link to topic]] [[Link to topic|With a caption]] [[:interwiki:Interwiki link]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.jamwiki.org/] [http://www.jamwiki.org/ alternate caption] http://www.jamwiki.org |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
==h2== ===h3=== ====h4==== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strike</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:image.gif]] [[Image:image.gif|200px|thumb|caption]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
<div align="right">text</div> |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
:indent one level :::indent three levels |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* 1 ** 1.1 * 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# 1 ## 1.1 # 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
;term :definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2013-05-05 | 2012-11-30 |