WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Version 1.17.0 1.9.3 phpwiki-1.3.14 2.2.19 TWiki 5.1.1
Last Release Date 2011-06-22 2010-06-27 2007-07-01 2010-11-10 2012-01-17
Author Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. moinmo.in Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau Patrick R. Michaud Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL www.mediawiki.org moinmo.in phpwiki.sourceforge.net www.pmwiki.org twiki.org and www.twiki.net
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL GPL GPL GPL2 GPL
Programming Language PHP Python PHP PHP Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage Database Files Files, DB, RCS Files Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 0 community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience End Users/Desktop, Education Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) Any All Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System RequirementsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Operating System *nix, Windows, Mac OS X UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access No No No No No
Webserver Any with PHP support Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0
Other Requirements none None various opt. helpers none RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DatastorageMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Text Files No Yes Yes Yes Yes
MySQL Yes No Yes Plugin No
PostgreSQL Yes No Yes No No
Oracle Yes No Yes No No
SQLite Yes No Yes Plugin No
BerkeleyDB No No Yes No No
RCS No No Yes No Yes
Other No No gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) Can provide custom data backends RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-SpamMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Yes modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking Yes Yes No Optional Plugin
Mail Encryption Plugin Optional No Plugin Yes
nofollow Optional No Yes Yes Plugin
Blacklist Yes Yes Yes Optional Plugin
CAPTCHA Plugin Optional Yes Plugin Plugin
Delayed Indexing No No No No Plugin
Development/SupportMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 58 listed Yes, 13 listed Yes, 2 listed Yes, 7 listed Yes, 33 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Code Repository svn.wikimedia.org see moinmo.in sf.net svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest twiki.org
Issue Tracker bugzilla.wikimedia.org see moinmo.in sf.net www.pmwiki.org twiki.org
Mailing List lists.wikimedia.org see moinmo.in sf.net www.pmichaud.com twiki.org
Support Forum mwusers.com see moinmo.in sf.net www.pmichaud.com twiki.org
IRC Channel www.mediawiki.org see moinmo.in #phpwiki #pmwiki on irc.freenode.net twiki.org
Common FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Special FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes No   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		   9 languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional		 27 languages
Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese		 19 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification Optional Yes Yes Optional Yes
Comments Discussion Pages Discussion Pages Plugin Plugin Threaded
Categories Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes No No Yes Yes
Page Redirection Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Plugin Yes Yes Yes Optional
Structured Data Plugin No Patch Yes Yes
LinksMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
CamelCase No Yes Yes Optional Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin
SisterWiki No Yes No No Plugin
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares No Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Page Redirects Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Syntax FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
HTML Tags Some Some Some Plugin All
Math formulas Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Tables simple + complex complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support No Yes No Optional No
Markdown Support No No No Plugin No
Textile Support No No No No Plugin
BBCode Support No No No No No
Emoticon Images Optional Yes No Plugin Yes
Syntax Highlighting Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Footnotes Yes Yes Yes Plugin Plugin
Quoting No No Yes Plugin Yes
Internal Comments Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No No No Yes Yes
Scripting Optional plugins, see comment ----------------> plugins, templates, PHP Plugin TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Plugin No Yes Plugin Yes
UsabilityMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Section Editing Yes No No Plugin Plugin
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit Optional Yes Optional Plugin Plugin
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Yes Patch Plugin Yes
Access Keys Yes Optional Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
StatisticsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Yes Yes Yes Optional No
Orphaned Pages Yes Yes Yes Optional Plugin
Most/Least Popular Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Recent Visitors Plugin No Yes Plugin Plugin
Analysis Optional Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
OutputMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print View Print View
Mobile Friendly No Yes No Plugin Plugin
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes No No Yes Yes
Abbreviations No No No Plugin Plugin
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
XML export Yes Yes No Plugin Plugin
PDF Export Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin
Media and FilesMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Optional Yes
Media Revisions Yes No Yes Optional Yes
Embedded Flash Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Plugin
Embedded Video Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Plugin
Image Editing No Yes No Plugin Plugin
SVG Editing No Yes No Plugin Plugin
MindMap Editing Plugin No No   Plugin
Media Search Keywords Contents No No Contents
ExtrasMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Plugin
Image Galleries Yes Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin
Forums Plugin No Yes Plugin Plugin
Blogs No No Yes Plugin Plugin
Ticket System No No No Plugin Plugin
Syntax ExamplesMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Internal Link 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[page name #anchor]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
[http://example.org The title]
 
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file

http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
 
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
'''bold'''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
''italic''
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
__underline__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
{+underlined+}
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
`monospaced`
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



@@monospace@@
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
<s>strikethrough</s>
 
--(strikethrough)--
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
{-strikethrough-}
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
'^superscript^'
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
'_subscript_'
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
[[Image:wiki.png]]
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
 
[ 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

http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text 
<center>Centered</center>
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
: indented line
 
  indented text
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
   paragraph
     and another level 

-> indented text
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
 
 * Item 1
  * Item 1.1
 * Item 2
 
* list
  or
- list
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
   * Item 1
      * Item 1.1
   * Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
 
 1. Item 1
  a. Item 1.a
 1. Item 2
 
# list
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
   1. Item 1
      a. Item 1.a
   1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
; term : definition
 
 term:: definition
 
Term:<def>
  def
 
: term : definition
 
   $ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
----
-----
------
 
----
 
----
 
---
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