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| General Features | MediaWiki  | DokuWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.11.1 |
 2008-05-05 |
TWiki 4.2.3 |
| Last Release Date |
2008-01-24 |
2008-05-05 |
2008-09-12 |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Andreas Gohr |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.dokuwiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
$0, and subscriptions for support |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
private, small to medium companies |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, Lighttp, anything with PHP support |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
| Other Requirements |
none |
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
 Optional |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
Optional |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
No |
None |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Plugin |
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 27 listed |
Yes, 13 listed |
Yes, 23 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
dev.splitbrain.org |
twiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
twiki.org |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.freelists.org |
twiki.org |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.dokuwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
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 |
44 languages Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
16 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
 Patch |
Optional |
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Optional |
All |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
Optional |
Optional, PHP |
JavaScript; TWiki variables; powerful API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
|
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |