| General Features | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
|
1.2.101
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R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Raymond Camden
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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Apache
|
Public Domain (!)
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
ColdFusion
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Mildly technical
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS
|
anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
ColdFusion MX
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
Access, SQL Server
|
no
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
4580 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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
|
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
optional
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | CanvasWiki | ErfurtWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
|
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
|
__bold text__ **bold text** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
|
''ialic text'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
optional or via css |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
==monospaced text== |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
optional or via css |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
^^superscript text^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
optional or via css |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
[link to the image.jpg] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
optional or via css |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
|
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove CanvasWiki | remove ErfurtWiki | remove DokuWiki |