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| General Features | Wikidot  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
1.0 |
| Last Release Date |
|
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
September 12, 2003 |
| Author |
Michal Frackowiak |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Clifford Adams |
| URL |
www.wikidot.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.usemod.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
AGPLv3 |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
|
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
|
| Hosting Features | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Storage Quota |
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
no limit |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Limits |
max uploaded file size limit |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
by Terms Of Service |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Own Domain |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Operating System |
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, Windows, MacOS X |
| Root Access |
|
 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 | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Text Files |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
|
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
|
None |
No |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
 Optional |
Plugin |
|
| nofollow |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
 Patch |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Patch |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 1 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Code Repository |
www.wikidot.org |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
|
| Issue Tracker |
|
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
|
| Mailing List |
n/a |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
|
| Support Forum |
community.wikidot.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
|
| IRC Channel |
n/a |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
|
| Common Features | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| 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 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Special Features | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Interface Languages |
2 languages English, Polish |
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 |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
|
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
No |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Patch |
Plugin |
|
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Links | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| CamelCase |
No |
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 |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| HTML Tags |
None |
Optional |
Some |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
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 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
None |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
| Usability | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | Wikidot | 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 |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Output | Wikidot | 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 View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
No |
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
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 |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| HTML Export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media and Files | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
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 | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Calendar |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Forums |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
|
| Blogs |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Ticket System |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikidot | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | UseMod |
| Internal Link |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
| Headlines |
+++ headline level 3 |
====== 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 text** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italic text// |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined text__ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospaced text}} |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough text-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[image src="..."]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://url.com/pic.gif |
| Aligning Text |
= Centered line |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
|
: indented line |
: indented |
| Bulleted Lists |
* element 1 * element 2 |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# element 1 # element 1 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: item : description |
|
; term : definition |
;Term:Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
|
| Last updated | 2009-12-09 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2009-07-01 |
