CanvasWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. WikyBlog

General Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Version
1.2.101
1.32.2
0.4.2
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
GPL
GPL V3
GPL
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
End Users/Desktop, Education
Private, small and big team
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Any with PHP support
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
none
MySQL
Datastorage CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
Access, SQL Server
No
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Page Permissions
No
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
No
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Preview
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
0
140
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
1
English
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
CamelCase
Yes
No
No
No
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Quoting
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
Optional
No
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Usability CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Statistics CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
No
Output CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Extras CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki MediaWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*Bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
=Italic=
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
_Underline_
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
[|Monospace formate|]
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
-Strike-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[$Image file$]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
#list1
##list2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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