-
Compare them all:
Wikis
Forums
Podcatchers
Weblogs
Feature Comparison
| General Features | bLADE Wiki  | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 3.4.9 |
1.0.10-alpha |
5.2 (61) |
| Last Release Date |
2008-11-10 |
|
18 Feb 2013 |
| Author |
Dale Lane |
Lukas Renggli |
Traction Software |
| URL |
dale.lane.googlepages.com |
www.lukas-renggli.ch |
www.tractionsoftware.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
No |
| License |
N/A |
MIT |
Free download for 5 Users; Commercial and Non Profit Annual or Perpetual Licensing |
| Programming Language |
C# |
Smalltalk |
Java |
| Data Storage |
Files |
other |
Files, DB |
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free |
0 |
Free for 5 users, License pricing starts at $495 (ten spaces) to $4,375 (unlimited spaces) per year |
| Development status |
Mature |
|
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup |
|
Small business to Enterprise, Government & Non-Profit |
| System Requirements | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Operating System |
Windows, Windows Mobile |
Windows, MacOS, Linux, anything Squeak runs on |
Windows, Solaris, Linux, MAC OSX (any OS capable of running Java 2 Virtual Machine) |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Webserver |
N/A |
Apache, lighttpd, standalone |
Included in application |
| Other Requirements |
.NET 2 Framework |
Squeak |
Other than the OS, the installer takes care of all required components. Can leverage (but does not require) multi-processor, multi-core 64 bit systems |
| Datastorage | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
No |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
 Optional |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
|
XML, Magma, Smalltalk image, ReferenceStream, SmartRefernceStream (ImageSegment) |
Journaling system records all additions/changes to the data. Files are stored in WebDAV controlled folders. |
| Security/Anti-Spam | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Page Permissions |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
No |
|
Internal Directory, LDAP, AD (including optional NTLM). Name, password, email, ACL groups can be defined by LDAP or AD queries. Hybrid authentication is supported (e.g. internal directory + LDAP) |
| Host Blocking |
No |
|
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
|
Yes |
| nofollow |
No |
|
No |
| Blacklist |
No |
|
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
No |
|
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
|
|
| Development/Support | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
|
mc.lukas-renggli.ch |
SDK and SDL Source available to customers. |
| Issue Tracker |
getsatisfaction.com |
bugs.squeak.org |
via Forum, Help and dedicate customer projects on TSI's TeamPage server |
| Mailing List |
|
www.iam.unibe.ch |
Yes |
| Support Forum |
getsatisfaction.com |
|
Yes |
| IRC Channel |
|
|
Twitter @TractionTeam |
| Common Features | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Preview |
No |
No |
No |
| Minor Changes |
No |
|
Yes |
| Change Summary |
No |
|
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
|
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
No |
|
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Plugin System |
No |
|
Yes |
| Special Features | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
|
Optional |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
|
|
6 languages German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese |
| Email notification |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Comments |
No |
No |
Threaded |
| Categories |
No |
|
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
None |
|
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
|
Yes |
| Structured Data |
|
|
 Plugin |
| Links | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| CamelCase |
No |
|
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
|
|
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
|
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| HTML Tags |
All |
All |
Some |
| Math formulas |
|
|
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple |
simple |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
|
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
|
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
|
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
|
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
|
No |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Quoting |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Custom styles |
No |
|
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
|
|
Yes |
| Scripting |
|
|
yes - via Rapid Selector, Plug-ins and more |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
|
|
Yes |
| Usability | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Section Editing |
No |
 Patch |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
|
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Patch |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
|
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Recent Changes |
|
|
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
|
|
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
|
|
Plugin |
| Recent Visitors |
|
|
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Output | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| HTML |
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
|
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Themes & Skins |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
No |
|
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
|
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
|
Yes |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| XML export |
No |
|
Yes |
| PDF Export |
No |
|
Yes |
| Media and Files | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
|
|
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
|
|
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
|
|
No |
| SVG Editing |
|
|
No |
| MindMap Editing |
|
|
No |
| Media Search |
|
|
Contents |
| Extras | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Calendar |
|
|
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
|
|
Plugin |
| Forums |
|
|
Yes |
| Blogs |
|
|
Yes |
| Ticket System |
|
|
Yes |
| Syntax Examples | bLADE Wiki | Pier | Traction TeamPage |
| Internal Link |
[Link to a page] |
+page name+ +link text>page name+ |
Use GUI link dialogue, or by hand: To Named Pages: Within Wiki: [[link]] Across Wiki: [[WikiName:link]] Global: [[*:link]] To Existing Pages / Paragraphs WikiNameID (e.g. Marketing64 or Marketing64.03) To "Views" - use GUI dialogue or Rapid Selector: [[/link 'link text' ::WikiName ViewName]] (e.g. [[/link 'Marketing Dashboard Page' ::marketing np]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.linkme.com] |
*http://...* *link text>http://...* |
WYSIWYG editor link dialog, link to full or partial url path (e.g. www.tractionsoftware.com is OK) or HTML in text only editor. |
| Headlines |
+Heading |
! text |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
| Bold Format |
*bold text* |
via html |
WYSIWYG editor selection, Ctrl+ B in some browsers, or HTML in text only editor. |
| Italics Format |
=italic text= |
via html |
WYSIWYG editor selection, Ctrl+I in some browsers, or HTML in text only editor. |
| Underline Format |
_underlined text_ |
via html |
WYSIWYG editor selection, Ctrl+U in some browsers, or HTML in text only editor. |
| Monospace Format |
[|code sample|] |
= monospace text 1 = monospace text 2 or via html |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough text- |
via html |
HTML in text only editor. |
| Superscript Format |
|
via html |
HTML in text only editor. |
| Subscript Format |
|
via html |
HTML in text only editor. |
| Images |
[$image.jpg$] |
via internal link or html |
WYSIWYG Image Insert Tool or HTML in text only editor. Images can be local (attached) or remote. When copying from web sites, copy/paste from browser to the WYSIWYG editor. Traction server will attach and locally reference the image. |
| Aligning Text |
|
via html |
Left, Middle, Right Alignment controls per paragraph or table cell. |
| Text Indentation |
> blockquote text |
via html |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
| Bulleted Lists |
- bulleted |
- item |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
| Numbered Lists |
# numbered |
# item |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
| Definition Lists |
|
via html |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
| Horizontal Rule |
___ |
_ (underline) |
WYSIWYG editor selection or HTML in text only editor. |
| Last updated | 2008-11-21 | 2007-06-13 | 2013-03-01 |