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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Zwiki  | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 0.61 |
1.9.1 |
1.15.0 |
4.1 |
| Last Release Date |
2008/10/28 |
2010-01-19 |
2009-06-10 |
2009-12-15 |
| Author |
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team |
moinmo.in |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
the TikiWiki Community |
| URL |
zwiki.org |
moinmo.in |
www.mediawiki.org |
tikiwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPLv2 |
GPL |
GPL |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
Python |
Python |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server |
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. |
| System Requirements | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Operating System |
any |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Zope |
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares |
Any with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
|
None |
none |
None |
| Datastorage | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Text Files |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
Plugin |
No |
|
No |
| SQLite |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
|
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
ZODB (zope object database) |
No |
No |
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
any supported by Zope authentication plugins |
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible |
Yes |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
| Host Blocking |
 Patch |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
 Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| nofollow |
|
No |
Optional |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 10 listed |
Yes, 47 listed |
Yes, 26 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
svn.wikimedia.org |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
| Issue Tracker |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
dev.tikiwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
| Support Forum |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
mwusers.com |
tikiwiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
#zwiki on freenode |
see moinmo.in |
www.mediawiki.org |
irc.tikiwiki.org |
| Common Features | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| 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 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Flat |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
| Categories |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
|
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Some |
Optional |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Patch |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Optional |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
DTML |
plugins, see comment ----------------> |
Optional |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Section Editing |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
| Statistics | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Analysis |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Output | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| HTML |
|
HTML 4 |
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 |
No |
Yes |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Patch |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Contents |
Keywords |
Contents |
| Extras | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Calendar |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
|
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Blogs |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Syntax Examples | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Internal Link |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]] [[target|label|params]] |
[[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 |
| External Link |
Bare urls plus markup-specific link syntax. This and all following syntax examples depend on which markup mode is used for a page, including: restructured text, structured text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, html, plaintext.. |
http://google.de/ or [[http://google.de/ | Google]] or file://///server/share/file |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
| Headlines |
|
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' '''strong emphasised''' |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
| Monospace Format |
|
`monospaced` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--(strikethrough)-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
| Images |
|
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
| Aligning Text |
|
only in tables: ||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right || |
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
|
* 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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| Last updated | 2008-10-30 | 2010-01-19 | 2009-06-10 | 2009-12-19 |
