WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General Featuresikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Version 2.67 2012-01-25 "Angua" 1.17.0 1.0
Last Release Date 2008-10-17 2012-01-25 2011-06-22 September 12, 2003
Author Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community Andreas Gohr Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. Clifford Adams
URL ikiwiki.info www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org www.usemod.com
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL GPL 2 GPL GPL
Programming Language Perl PHP PHP Perl
Data Storage Files, RCS Files Database Files
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience Anyone private, small to medium companies End Users/Desktop, Education  
System Requirementsikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Operating System Any Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others *nix, Windows, Mac OS X Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access No No No No
Webserver Any, or none Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support Any with PHP support Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements     none  
Datastorageikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Text Files Yes Yes No Yes
MySQL No No Yes No
PostgreSQL No No Yes No
Oracle No No Yes No
SQLite No No Yes No
BerkeleyDB No No No No
RCS Yes No No No
Other   None No No
Security/Anti-Spamikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes No No
Authentication Backends Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory Yes  
Host Blocking Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Mail Encryption Yes Optional Plugin  
nofollow No Optional Optional Patch
Blacklist Yes Optional Yes Patch
CAPTCHA No Plugin Plugin No
Delayed Indexing No Optional No No
Development/Supportikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Commercial Support Yes, 1 listed Yes, 33 listed Yes, 63 listed Yes, 1 listed
Preconfigured Hosting   Yes Yes  
Code Repository svn://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/trunk github.com svn.wikimedia.org  
Issue Tracker ikiwiki.info ; ikiwiki.info bugs.splitbrain.org bugzilla.wikimedia.org  
Mailing List ikiwiki.info www.freelists.org lists.wikimedia.org  
Support Forum ikiwiki.info forum.dokuwiki.org mwusers.com  
IRC Channel ikiwiki.info www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org  
Common Featuresikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
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 Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes  
Special Featuresikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes Yes  
Interface Languages Not localized 55 languages
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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 Optional Optional  
Comments Discussion Pages Plugin Discussion Pages No
Categories Plugin Plugin Yes  
Namespaces Yes Yes Yes  
Page Redirection No Plugin Yes  
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Detection
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Yes Patch Plugin  
Structured Data   Plugin Plugin  
Linksikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
CamelCase Plugin Optional No Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Plugin Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki Plugin No No Yes
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes Yes No No
Page Redirects   Plugin Yes  
Syntax Featuresikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
HTML Tags Optional Optional Some Some
Math formulas Plugin Plugin Yes No
Tables simple + complex simple simple + complex simple
CREOLE support No Plugin No  
Markdown Support Yes Plugin No No
Textile Support Plugin Plugin No No
BBCode Support No Plugin No No
Emoticon Images Plugin Yes Optional No
Syntax Highlighting Plugin Yes Plugin No
Footnotes No Yes Yes No
Quoting Yes Yes No No
Internal Comments Yes Plugin Yes No
Custom styles Yes Plugin Yes No
FAQ Tags Yes Plugin No No
Scripting safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin Optional, PHP Optional None
Content Includes Plugin Plugin Yes  
Feed Aggregation Plugin Yes Plugin  
Usabilityikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Section Editing No Yes Yes No
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes  
Double-Click Edit No Plugin Optional No
Toolbar No Yes Yes No
WYSIWYG Editing No Plugin Plugin No
Access Keys No Yes Yes  
Auto Signature No Yes Yes No
Statisticsikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Plugin Plugin Yes Patch
Orphaned Pages Plugin Plugin Yes Patch
Most/Least Popular No No Yes No
Recent Visitors No No Plugin No
Analysis No Plugin Optional No
Outputikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Strict XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 3
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS No
Mobile Friendly Yes Plugin No  
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes No
RSS Feeds Plugin Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Plugin Yes Yes No
Abbreviations No Yes No No
Auto-TOC Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes No
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes No
XML export No No Yes No
PDF Export No Plugin Plugin No
Media and Filesikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Optional
Media Revisions Yes Yes Yes No
Embedded Flash Optional Yes Plugin No
Embedded Video Optional Plugin Plugin No
Image Editing No No No  
SVG Editing No Plugin No  
MindMap Editing No Plugin Plugin  
Media Search Filenames only Filenames only Keywords No
Extrasikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Plugin  
Image Galleries Plugin Plugin Yes  
Forums   No Plugin  
Blogs Yes Plugin No  
Ticket System Yes Plugin No  
Syntax Examplesikiwiki DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsUseMod Details
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
 
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
 
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

    indented block of
    monospaced text

    tab-indented
    block
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
 N/A
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text  
 Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
 N/A
Text Indentation  
 N/A
: indented line
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
  * item 2.1
  * item 2.2
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
  1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
 Plugin
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
 
Last updated2008-10-282012-02-012011-06-222009-07-01