WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Version 1.17.0 2.2.0 phpwiki-1.3.14 R5.0.rc2
Last Release Date 2011-06-22 2006-10-23 2007-07-01 2012-02-06
Author Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. Nemein Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau WackoWiki Team
URL www.mediawiki.org www.midgard-project.org phpwiki.sourceforge.net wackowiki.sourceforge.net
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL LGPL GPL BSD
Programming Language PHP PHP PHP PHP
Data Storage Database Database Files, DB, RCS Database
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 none
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience End Users/Desktop, Education Small teams, corporations, Midgard CMS users Any Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System RequirementsMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Operating System *nix, Windows, Mac OS X Linux, Unix, Mac OS X UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others OS Independent
Root Access No Yes No No
Webserver Any with PHP support Apache Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements none MySQL, Midgard CMS, PHP various opt. helpers database
DatastorageMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Text Files No No Yes No
MySQL Yes Yes Yes Yes
PostgreSQL Yes No Yes No
Oracle Yes No Yes No
SQLite Yes No Yes No
BerkeleyDB No No Yes No
RCS No Yes Yes No
Other No   gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) DB abstraction with PDO
Security/Anti-SpamMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL No Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Yes PAM, LDAP, NTLM, Midgard database db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver LDAP (patch)
Host Blocking Yes No No No
Mail Encryption Plugin Yes No Optional
nofollow Optional No Yes No
Blacklist Yes No Yes Yes
CAPTCHA Plugin Optional Yes Yes
Delayed Indexing No No No No
Development/SupportMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 58 listed No Yes, 2 listed Yes, 1 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes No Yes
Code Repository svn.wikimedia.org midcom.tigris.org sf.net wackowiki.hg.sourceforge.net
Issue Tracker bugzilla.wikimedia.org midcom.tigris.org sf.net wackowiki.sourceforge.net
Mailing List lists.wikimedia.org www.midgard-project.org sf.net groups.google.com
Support Forum mwusers.com www.midgard-project.org sf.net wackowiki.sourceforge.net
IRC Channel www.mediawiki.org www.midgard-project.org #phpwiki wackowiki.sourceforge.net
Common FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes No Yes Yes
Change Summary Yes 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 Yes   Yes Yes
Special FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes No
Right-to-Left Support Yes Optional No  
Interface Languages 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		 4 languages
English, German, Finnish, Swedish		 9 languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional		 14 languages
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Moldavian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian
Email notification Optional Patch Yes Yes
Comments Discussion Pages Plugin Plugin Flat
Categories Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes No No Yes
Page Redirection Yes Yes Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Page Locking Conflict Resolution Page Locking
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Plugin   Yes Patch
Structured Data Plugin   Patch Plugin
LinksMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
CamelCase No No Yes Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes No Yes Yes
SisterWiki No No No No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares No Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirects Yes   Yes Yes
Syntax FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
HTML Tags Some Some Some All
Math formulas Yes No Plugin Plugin
Tables simple + complex complex simple + complex simple
CREOLE support No No No No
Markdown Support No Yes No No
Textile Support No No No No
BBCode Support No No No Patch
Emoticon Images Optional No No Patch
Syntax Highlighting Plugin No Plugin Yes
Footnotes Yes No Yes Yes
Quoting No Yes Yes Yes
Internal Comments Yes Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Yes Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No No No No
Scripting Optional PHP can be used in page templates plugins, templates, PHP actions
Content Includes Yes Optional Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
UsabilityMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Section Editing Yes No No No
Page Templates Yes   Yes  
Double-Click Edit Optional Yes Optional Yes
Toolbar Yes No Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Optional Patch Yes
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes No Yes Yes
StatisticsMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Yes No Yes Yes
Orphaned Pages Yes Yes Yes Yes
Most/Least Popular Yes No Yes Yes
Recent Visitors Plugin No Yes No
Analysis Optional Plugin Plugin Plugin
OutputMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Strict XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print View
Mobile Friendly No   No No
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes No No No
Abbreviations No No No No
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Yes Yes
Raw Export Yes No Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
XML export Yes Yes No Yes
PDF Export Plugin No Yes No
Media and FilesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Optional Yes Yes
Media Revisions Yes No Yes No
Embedded Flash Plugin Optional Yes Yes
Embedded Video Plugin Optional Yes Yes
Image Editing No No No No
SVG Editing No No No No
MindMap Editing Plugin No No Plugin
Media Search Keywords Contents No Contents
ExtrasMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Calendar Plugin   Yes Plugin
Image Galleries Yes   Yes Plugin
Forums Plugin   Yes Optional
Blogs No   Yes Optional
Ticket System No   No No
Syntax ExamplesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
Internal Link 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
 
[Wikipage]
[Wikipage|link label]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link 
[http://example.org The title]
 
[External link](http://www.example.net)
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://wackowiki.org
[[http://wackowiki.org Wacko Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines 
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
 
# Top Level Heading
## Smaller Heading
###### Smallest Heading
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

== Top Level Heading==
=== Smaller Heading==
====== Smallest Heading==
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
**bold**
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
_italics_
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
//italics//
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
<u>underline</u>
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
`monospace`
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



##monospace##
Strikethrough Format 
<s>strikethrough</s>
 
<span style="text-decoration: strikethrough;">strikethrough</span>
 
<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>
 
vvsubscriptvv
Images 
[[Image:wiki.png]]
 
[photo: IMAGE IDENTIFIER IN GALLERY]
![Image text](http://www.example.net/external-image.jpg)
 
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
  external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
  view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
  view and link to another image

((image.png))
file:image.png
http://url.tld/image.png
Aligning Text 
<center>Centered</center>
 
<div style="text-align: center;">centered text</div>
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation 
: indented line
 
> Quoted text
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
   paragraph
     and another level 

  one
    two
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
 
* one
  * one-two
* two
* three
 
* list
  or
- list
 
  *one
    **One-two
  *two
  *three
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
 
1. one
    1. one-two
2. two
3. three
 
# list
 
  1. numbered List
    1. numbered List-2
    2.#8 numbered List, with break
Definition Lists 
; term : definition
 
Term
:    Definition
 
Term:<def>
  def
  
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
<hr />
 
----
 
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Last updated2011-06-222006-11-072009-04-032012-02-05