Friki vs. MediaWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Version
2.1.1
1.32.2
2.67
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
System Requirements Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Any with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
none
Datastorage Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
monospace
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
:        indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
title:        description
; term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Friki remove MediaWiki remove ikiwiki