WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
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 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 none database
DatastorageMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
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-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, 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 FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
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 FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMidgard Wiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsWackoWiki Details
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
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
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 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