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| General Features | PmWiki  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.2.19 |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
8.3 |
| Last Release Date |
2010-11-10 |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
2012-1-17 |
| Author |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Tiki Software Community Association |
| URL |
www.pmwiki.org |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
tiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL2 |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Files |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
All |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. |
| System Requirements | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Works on standard shared hosting |
| Other Requirements |
none |
|
none |
None |
| Datastorage | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Text Files |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
 Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
Can provide custom data backends |
None |
No |
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
| Host Blocking |
 Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| nofollow |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
| Blacklist |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 8 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 50 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
| Issue Tracker |
www.pmwiki.org |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
dev.tiki.org |
| Mailing List |
www.pmichaud.com |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
| Support Forum |
www.pmichaud.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
tiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
irc://irc.freenode.org/tikiwiki |
| Common Features | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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 Features | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
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 |
55 languages Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
 Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin |
Optional |
Some |
Optional |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
Plugin |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Output | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| 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 View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| File Attachments |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| MindMap Editing |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
No |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
Contents |
| Extras | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[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 |
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
| Images |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text |
|
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
|
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
--- |
| Last updated | 2010-11-22 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2012-04-16 |
