Wiki-Toolkit vs. Confluence vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Version
0.72
5.2
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Dominic Hargreaves
Atlassian
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL/Artistic
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Operating System
Anything that runs Perl
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything with CGI support
Apache Tomcat
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
Datastorage Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin Interface
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Optional
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Output Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki-Toolkit Confluence MediaWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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