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Feature Comparison
| General Features | WikiNi  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 0.5.0 |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
1.0 |
| Last Release Date |
4/12/2007 |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
September 12, 2003 |
| Author |
|
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Clifford Adams |
| URL |
www.wikini.net |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.usemod.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
|
| System Requirements | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Operating System |
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X) |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, Windows, MacOS X |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
|
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, probably anything with CGI support |
| Other Requirements |
|
|
none |
|
| Datastorage | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
|
None |
No |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
|
| Host Blocking |
|
 Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
|
 Optional |
Plugin |
|
| nofollow |
No |
Optional |
Optional |
 Patch |
| Blacklist |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Patch |
| CAPTCHA |
Patch |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Code Repository |
|
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
|
| Issue Tracker |
|
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
| Mailing List |
|
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
|
| Support Forum |
|
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
|
| IRC Channel |
|
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
|
| Common Features | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Age |
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 | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Unicode Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Interface Languages |
Not localized |
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 |
|
| Email notification |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
|
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
No |
| Categories |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Namespaces |
Patch |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Patch |
Plugin |
|
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Links | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Redirects |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Optional |
Some |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Quoting |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| Internal Comments |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Custom styles |
Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
|
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
None |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Patch |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
| Usability | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Toolbar |
Patch |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Patch |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Patch |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Output | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 3 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
No |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
Plugin |
No |
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| HTML Export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| File Attachments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
|
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
No |
|
| SVG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
|
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Media Search |
No |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
No |
| Extras | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Calendar |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Image Galleries |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Forums |
|
No |
Plugin |
|
| Blogs |
|
Plugin |
No |
|
| Ticket System |
|
Plugin |
No |
|
| Syntax Examples | WikiNi | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Internal Link |
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx) |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
| External Link |
[[ ]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
| Headlines |
====== ====== level 1 ===== ===== level 2 ==== ==== level 3 === === level 4 == == level 5 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== ====== Level 6 ====== |
| Bold Format |
** ** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
// // |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__ __ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
## ## |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
@@ @@ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://url.com/pic.gif |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
[space] level 1 [space][space] level 2 [space][space][...] level X |
|
: indented line |
: indented |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
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* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : definition |
;Term:Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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---- |
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| Last updated | 2009-02-10 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2009-07-01 |
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