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| General Features | MediaWiki  | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.16.0 |
 2.2.0 |
R4.3 |
| Last Release Date |
2010-07-28 |
2006-10-23 |
2008-09-28 |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Nemein |
WackoWiki Team |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.midgard-project.org |
wackowiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
LGPL |
BSD |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
 none |
| Development status |
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 | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X |
OS Independent |
| Root Access |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Apache |
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice |
| Other Requirements |
none |
MySQL, Midgard CMS, PHP |
database |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
|
No |
No |
| SQLite |
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Other |
No |
|
DB abstraction with PDO |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
PAM, LDAP, NTLM, Midgard database |
LDAP (patch) |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
 Plugin |
Yes |
 Optional |
| nofollow |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 53 listed |
No |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
midcom.tigris.org |
wackowiki.hg.sourceforge.net |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
midcom.tigris.org |
bugs.wackowiki.org |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.midgard-project.org |
groups.google.com |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
www.midgard-project.org |
forum.wackowiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.midgard-project.org |
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| 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 |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Optional |
|
| 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 |
14 languages Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Moldavian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian |
| Email notification |
Optional |
 Patch |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Flat |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
|
Patch |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Links | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Some |
All |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
complex |
simple |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
No |
Patch |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional |
PHP can be used in page templates |
actions |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
|
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Output | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
|
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
Contents |
Contents |
| Extras | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Blogs |
No |
|
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
No |
|
No |
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Midgard Wiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Wikipage] [Wikipage|link label] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[External link](http://www.example.net) |
http://wackowiki.org [[http://wackowiki.org Wacko Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
# Top Level Heading ## Smaller Heading ###### Smallest Heading |
== Top Level Heading== === Smaller Heading== ====== Smallest Heading== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`monospace` |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<span style="text-decoration: strikethrough;">strikethrough</span> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[photo: IMAGE IDENTIFIER IN GALLERY]  |
((image.png)) file:image.png http://url.tld/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<div style="text-align: center;">centered text</div> |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")content%%
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
> Quoted text |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. one |
|
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Term : Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
<hr /> |
---- |
| Last updated | 2010-07-28 | 2006-11-07 | 2010-05-25 |
