WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Version 1.17.0 8.3 1.3.1 phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date 2011-06-22 2012-1-17 2011-03-31 2007-07-01
Author Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. Tiki Software Community Association Wikka Development Team Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL www.mediawiki.org tiki.org wikkawiki.org phpwiki.sourceforge.net
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL LGPL GPL GPL
Programming Language PHP PHP PHP PHP
Data Storage Database Database Database Files, DB, RCS
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience End Users/Desktop, Education Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend) Any
System RequirementsMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Operating System *nix, Windows, Mac OS X Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others any (platform-independent) UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access No No No No
Webserver Any with PHP support Works on standard shared hosting any server with PHP/MySQL support Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements none None mod_rewrite (optional) various opt. helpers
DatastorageMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Text Files No No No Yes
MySQL Yes Yes Yes Yes
PostgreSQL Yes No No Yes
Oracle Yes No No Yes
SQLite Yes No No Yes
BerkeleyDB No No No Yes
RCS No No No Yes
Other No   No gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-SpamMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL No Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Yes OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication Active Directory (patch) db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking Yes Yes Yes No
Mail Encryption Plugin Yes No No
nofollow Optional Optional Yes Yes
Blacklist Yes No Yes Yes
CAPTCHA Plugin Yes Plugin Yes
Delayed Indexing No No No No
Development/SupportMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 63 listed Yes, 50 listed No Yes, 2 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes Yes No
Code Repository svn.wikimedia.org tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net wush.net sf.net
Issue Tracker bugzilla.wikimedia.org dev.tiki.org wush.net sf.net
Mailing List lists.wikimedia.org sourceforge.net wikkawiki.org sf.net
Support Forum mwusers.com tiki.org (support requests are handled via mailing list) sf.net
IRC Channel www.mediawiki.org irc://irc.freenode.org/tikiwiki wikkawiki.org #phpwiki
Common FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes No Yes
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes Yes
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 Yes
Special FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes 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, 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		 34 languages
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional		   9 languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification Optional Yes Patch Yes
Comments Discussion Pages Threaded Flat Plugin
Categories Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes No No
Page Redirection Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Conflict Detection Page Locking Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Plugin Yes No Yes
Structured Data Plugin Yes Plugin Patch
LinksMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
CamelCase No Optional Yes Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Patch Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki No No No No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares No Yes No Yes
Page Redirects Yes Yes Patch Yes
Syntax FeaturesMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
HTML Tags Some Optional Some Some
Math formulas Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Tables simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support No No No No
Markdown Support No No No No
Textile Support No No No No
BBCode Support No No No No
Emoticon Images Optional Yes No No
Syntax Highlighting Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Footnotes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Quoting No Yes Yes Yes
Internal Comments Yes Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Yes Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No Yes No No
Scripting Optional Dynamic Variables more info ===>> Extensibility through drop-in plugins plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Plugin Yes Yes Yes
UsabilityMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Section Editing Yes Yes No No
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit Optional Yes Yes Optional
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Optional Plugin Patch
Access Keys Yes Yes Patch Yes
Auto Signature Yes No Patch Yes
StatisticsMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Yes Yes Yes Yes
Orphaned Pages Yes Yes Yes Yes
Most/Least Popular Yes Yes Patch Yes
Recent Visitors Plugin Yes Patch Yes
Analysis Optional Yes Yes Plugin
OutputMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print View Print CSS Print CSS
Mobile Friendly No Yes   No
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes Plugin No
Abbreviations No Yes Patch No
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Patch Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Plugin Yes
XML export Yes Yes Patch No
PDF Export Plugin Plugin No Yes
Media and FilesMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Revisions Yes Yes No Yes
Embedded Flash Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Embedded Video Plugin Yes No Yes
Image Editing No Yes No No
SVG Editing No Yes No No
MindMap Editing Plugin Plugin Yes No
Media Search Keywords Contents No No
ExtrasMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Yes Plugin Yes
Image Galleries Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Forums Plugin Yes No Yes
Blogs No Yes Plugin Yes
Ticket System No Yes No No
Syntax ExamplesMediaWiki DetailsTiki Wiki CMS Groupware DetailsWikkaWiki DetailsPhpWiki Details
Internal Link 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
 
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
 
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced This is a link]]
[[forced 日本語]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link 
[http://example.org The title]
 
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
 
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines 
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
 
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format 
'''bold'''
 
__bold__
 
**bold**
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format 
''italic''
 
''italic''
 
//italic//
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
===underline===
 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
-+monospace+-

##monospaced##
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
<s>strikethrough</s>
 
--strike--
 
++Strike through text++
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
{SUP()}text{SUP}
 
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
 
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
{SUB()}text{SUB}
 
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
 
<sub>below</sub>
Images 
[[Image:wiki.png]]
 
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
 
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
 
[ 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
Aligning Text 
<center>Centered</center>
 
::centered text::
 
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>
Text Indentation 
: indented line
 
leading spaces, if activated.
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
    indented
~indented
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
   paragraph
     and another level
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
 
* list
  or
- list
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
 
# list
Definition Lists 
; term : definition
 
;term:definition
 
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
 
Term:<def>
  def
Horizontal Rule 
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Last updated2011-06-222012-04-162011-05-082009-04-03