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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Midgard Wiki  | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.2.0 |
1.17.0 |
8.3 |
1.3.1 |
| Last Release Date |
2006-10-23 |
2011-06-22 |
2012-1-17 |
2011-03-31 |
| Author |
Nemein |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Tiki Software Community Association |
Wikka Development Team |
| URL |
www.midgard-project.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
tiki.org |
wikkawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
LGPL |
GPL |
LGPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Small teams, corporations, Midgard CMS users |
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) |
| System Requirements | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
any (platform-independent) |
| Root Access |
Yes |
 No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Apache |
Any with PHP support |
Works on standard shared hosting |
any server with PHP/MySQL support |
| Other Requirements |
MySQL, Midgard CMS, PHP |
none |
None |
mod_rewrite (optional) |
| Datastorage | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
|
No |
|
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
PAM, LDAP, NTLM, Midgard database |
Yes |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
Active Directory (patch) |
| Host Blocking |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| nofollow |
No |
 Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 50 listed |
No |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
midcom.tigris.org |
svn.wikimedia.org |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
wush.net |
| Issue Tracker |
midcom.tigris.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
dev.tiki.org |
wush.net |
| Mailing List |
www.midgard-project.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
wikkawiki.org |
| Support Forum |
www.midgard-project.org |
mwusers.com |
tiki.org |
(support requests are handled via mailing list) |
| IRC Channel |
www.midgard-project.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
irc://irc.freenode.org/tikiwiki |
wikkawiki.org |
| Common Features | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| 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 |
| Special Features | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
4 languages English, German, Finnish, Swedish |
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 |
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| Email notification |
 Patch |
Optional |
Yes |
Patch |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Flat |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Links | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Syntax Features | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Some |
Optional |
Some |
| Math formulas |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
PHP can be used in page templates |
Optional |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
Extensibility through drop-in plugins |
| Content Includes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Optional |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
No |
Patch |
| Statistics | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Patch |
| Analysis |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Output | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
No |
Yes |
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
Yes |
Patch |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Raw Export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| PDF Export |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
Contents |
No |
| Extras | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Calendar |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Blogs |
|
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
| Syntax Examples | Midgard Wiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | WikkaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Wikipage] [Wikipage|link label] |
[[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]] |
| External Link |
[External link](http://www.example.net) |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
| Headlines |
# Top Level Heading ## Smaller Heading ###### Smallest Heading |
==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 == |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
##monospaced## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<span style="text-decoration: strikethrough;">strikethrough</span> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
++Strike through text++ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
| Images |
[photo: IMAGE IDENTIFIER IN GALLERY]  |
[[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"}} |
| Aligning Text |
<div style="text-align: center;">centered text</div> |
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
| Text Indentation |
> Quoted text |
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one |
* 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 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. one |
# 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) |
| Definition Lists |
Term : Definition |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
| Horizontal Rule |
<hr /> |
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| Last updated | 2006-11-07 | 2011-06-22 | 2012-04-16 | 2011-05-08 |
