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Feature Comparison
| General Features | MediaWiki  | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.15.0 |
phpwiki-1.3.14 |
 Last Release Date |
2009-06-10 |
2007-07-01 |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
phpwiki.sourceforge.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files, DB, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Any |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
none |
various opt. helpers |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
| Oracle |
|
Yes |
| SQLite |
Yes |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
Yes |
| RCS |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
No |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
 Plugin |
No |
| nofollow |
 Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 37 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
No |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
sf.net |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
#phpwiki |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
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, 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 |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
 Patch |
| Links | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional |
plugins, templates, PHP |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Patch |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Output | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
No |
| Extras | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Blogs |
No |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-06-10 | 2009-04-03 |
