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| General Features | Traction TeamPage  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 5.2 (40) |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
2.2.19 |
| Last Release Date |
12 Mar 2012 |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
2010-11-10 |
| Author |
Traction Software |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Patrick R. Michaud |
| URL |
www.tractionsoftware.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Free download for 5 Users; Commercial and Non Profit Annual or Perpetual Licensing |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL2 |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files, DB |
Files |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free for 5 users, License pricing starts at $495 (ten spaces) to $4,375 (unlimited spaces) per year |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Small business to Enterprise, Government & Non-Profit |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
All |
| System Requirements | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Solaris, Linux, MAC OSX (any OS capable of running Java 2 Virtual Machine) |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
| Root Access |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Included in application |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
| Other Requirements |
Other than the OS, the installer takes care of all required components. Can leverage (but does not require) multi-processor, multi-core 64 bit systems |
|
none |
none |
| Datastorage | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
 Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
Journaling system records all additions/changes to the data. Files are stored in WebDAV controlled folders. |
None |
No |
Can provide custom data backends |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Internal Directory, LDAP, AD (including optional NTLM). Name, password, email, ACL groups can be defined by LDAP or AD queries. Hybrid authentication is supported (e.g. internal directory + LDAP) |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| nofollow |
No |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
|
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 1 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 8 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
SDK and SDL Source available to customers. |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
| Issue Tracker |
via Forum, Help and dedicate customer projects on TSI's TeamPage server |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
Yes |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
| Support Forum |
Yes |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
www.pmichaud.com |
| IRC Channel |
Twitter @TractionTeam |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
| Common Features | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
No |
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 | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Interface Languages |
6 languages German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese |
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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
 Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
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 | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Optional |
Some |
Plugin |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Textile Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
yes - via Rapid Selector, Plug-ins and more |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Output | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
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 |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| XML export |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Media Search |
Contents |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
No |
| Extras | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | Traction TeamPage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
Use GUI link dialogue, or by hand: To Named Pages: Within Wiki: [[link]] Across Wiki: [[WikiName:link]] Global: [[*:link]] To Existing Pages / Paragraphs WikiNameID (e.g. Marketing64 or Marketing64.03) To "Views" - use GUI dialogue or Rapid Selector: [[/link 'link text' ::WikiName ViewName]] (e.g. [[/link 'Marketing Dashboard Page' ::marketing np]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
WYSIWYG editor link dialog, link to full or partial url path (e.g. www.tractionsoftware.com is OK) or HTML in text only editor. |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
WYSIWYG editor selection, Ctrl+ B in some browsers, or HTML in text only editor. |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
WYSIWYG editor selection, Ctrl+I in some browsers, or HTML in text only editor. |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
WYSIWYG editor selection, Ctrl+U in some browsers, or HTML in text only editor. |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
WYSIWYG Image Insert Tool or HTML in text only editor. Images can be local (attached) or remote. When copying from web sites, copy/paste from browser to the WYSIWYG editor. Traction server will attach and locally reference the image. |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
Left, Middle, Right Alignment controls per paragraph or table cell. |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
| Text Indentation |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
|
: indented line |
-> indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
|
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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| Last updated | 2012-03-19 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2010-11-22 |
