| General Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
|
5.2
|
3.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Atlassian
|
Hallo Welt! GmbH
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPLv3
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Optional
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Other |
No
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| 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 |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
Java Script
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Confluence | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underline+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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