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| General Features | Wikispaces  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
does not apply | 2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
 2.2.19 |
| Last Release Date |
does not apply | 2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
2010-11-10 |
| Author |
Wikispaces.com |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Patrick R. Michaud |
| URL |
www.wikispaces.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
does not apply |  Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
does not apply | GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL2 |
| Programming Language |
does not apply | PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
does not apply | Files |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
free for public and protected (members-only) spaces; $5/mo. for private and ad-free spaces |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
does not apply | Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
interest groups, education, small companies, social groups, individuals |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
All |
| Hosting Features | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Storage Quota |
2GB - Unlimited |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
no limit set |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Limits |
 none |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
per 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 | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
does not apply | Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
| Root Access |
does not apply | No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
does not apply | 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 |
does not apply | |
none |
none |
| Datastorage | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
does not apply | Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
does not apply | No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
| PostgreSQL |
does not apply | No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
does not apply | No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
does not apply | No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| BerkeleyDB |
does not apply | No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
does not apply | No |
No |
No |
| Other |
does not apply | None |
No |
Can provide custom data backends |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
does not apply | Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
| Host Blocking |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| nofollow |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 8 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
does not apply | github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
| Issue Tracker |
www.wikispaces.com |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
n/a |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
| Support Forum |
www.wikispaces.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
www.pmichaud.com |
| IRC Channel |
n/a |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
| Common Features | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| 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 |
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 |
Yes |
| Special Features | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Interface Languages |
8 languages Welsh, German, English, Spanish, Basque, French, Italian, 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 |
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 |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
| 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 Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
does not apply |  Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Optional |
Some |
Plugin |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
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 |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Internal Comments |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
yes: javascript |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | Wikispaces | 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 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Output | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| 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 |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| XML export |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Wikispaces | 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 |
Filenames only |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
No |
| Extras | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | Wikispaces | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[pagename]] or [[pagename|alias]] or [[spacename:pagename]] |
[[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 |
[[http://somewhere.else]] [[http://somewhere.else|alias]] or http://somewhere.else |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 == === Headline 3 === |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
via editor tool |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
via editor tool |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
via editor tool |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
[[image:image.jpg]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
via editor tool |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
| Text Indentation |
> indent |
|
: indented line |
-> indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one * two ** sub-two * three |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# one # two ## sub-two # three |
|
# 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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| Last updated | 2010-10-20 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2010-11-22 |
