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Feature Comparison
| General Features | MediaWiki  | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.11.1 |
 2.2.0 |
phpwiki-1.3.12p2 |
R4.3 |
| Last Release Date |
2008-01-24 |
2006-10-23 |
2006-03-07 |
2008-09-28 |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Nemein |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp |
WackoWiki Team |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.midgard-project.org |
phpwiki.sourceforge.net |
www.wackowiki.org |
| 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 |
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| 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 |
none |
database |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
 Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
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-Spam | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| 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/Support | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 27 listed |
No |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
midcom.tigris.org |
sf.net |
svn.wackowiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
midcom.tigris.org |
sf.net |
bugs.wackowiki.org |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.midgard-project.org |
sf.net |
groups.google.com |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
www.midgard-project.org |
sf.net |
groups.google.com |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.midgard-project.org |
#wiki |
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| 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 Features | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
|
| Interface Languages |
137 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, 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 |
4 languages English, German, Finnish, Swedish |
9 languages Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish |
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 |
Plugin |
| 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 |
|
|
|
|
| Structured Data |
|
|
|
Plugin |
| Links | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| 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 |
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | PhpWiki | WackoWiki |
| 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 |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
No |
No |
No |
| 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 |