ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. mobiki

General Features ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Version
2.67
1.32.2
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2016-06-26 (9 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Martin D�ring
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Text centric websites and mobile use
System Requirements ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
any
Other Requirements
none
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
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
Yes
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
# 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 ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Features ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki MediaWiki mobiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Internal Link]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
n/a
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
n/a
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
___
aligned text
___
Text Indentation
: indented line
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
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 1.2
# Item 2
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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