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| General Features | MediaWiki  | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.17.0 |
8.3 |
 |
| Last Release Date |
2011-06-22 |
2012-1-17 |
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Tiki Software Community Association |
Michal Frackowiak |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
tiki.org |
www.wikidot.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
LGPL |
AGPLv3 |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
|
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month) |
| Development status |
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. |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks |
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | 1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | no limit |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply | max uploaded file size limit |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | by Terms Of Service |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
|
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Works on standard shared hosting |
|
| Other Requirements |
none |
None |
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
|
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
Yes |
No |
|
| SQLite |
Yes |
No |
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
|
| RCS |
No |
No |
|
| Other |
No |
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| nofollow |
 Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 50 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
www.wikidot.org |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
dev.tiki.org |
|
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
n/a |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
tiki.org |
community.wikidot.com |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
irc://irc.freenode.org/tikiwiki |
n/a |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| 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 |
2 languages English, Polish |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Links | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| CamelCase |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Optional |
None |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Output | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
Contents |
No |
| Extras | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Blogs |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikidot |
| 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 |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
+++ headline level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italic text// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
__underlined text__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
{{monospaced text}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
--strikethrough text-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
[[image src="..."]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
= Centered line |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
: item : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2011-06-22 | 2012-04-16 | 2009-12-09 |