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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Zwiki  | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 0.61 |
1.9.3 |
1.16.0 |
| Last Release Date |
2008/10/28 |
2010-06-27 |
2010-07-28 |
| Author |
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team |
moinmo.in |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
zwiki.org |
moinmo.in |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPLv2 |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Python |
Python |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
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 |
| System Requirements | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
any |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Zope |
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
|
None |
none |
| Datastorage | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
Plugin |
No |
|
| SQLite |
|
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
|
No |
No |
| RCS |
|
No |
No |
| Other |
ZODB (zope object database) |
No |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
any supported by Zope authentication plugins |
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible |
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
 Patch |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
 Optional |
Plugin |
| nofollow |
|
No |
Optional |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 11 listed |
Yes, 53 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
zwiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
#zwiki on freenode |
see moinmo.in |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Comments |
Flat |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
| Structured Data |
|
No |
Plugin |
| Links | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Freelinks |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
|
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Patch |
Yes |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
DTML |
plugins, see comment ----------------> |
Optional |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Usability | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch |
Yes |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Output | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| HTML |
|
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
Yes |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
|
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Patch |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Contents |
Keywords |
| Extras | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
| Forums |
|
No |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
|
No |
No |
| Ticket System |
|
No |
No |
| Syntax Examples | Zwiki | MoinMoin | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]] [[target|label|params]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| 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] |
| Headlines |
|
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' '''strong emphasised''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
`monospaced` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--(strikethrough)-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
only in tables: ||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right || |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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| Last updated | 2008-10-30 | 2010-07-03 | 2010-07-28 |
