Drupal Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence

General Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Version
8.26
1.32.2
5.2
Last Release Date
2023-05-31 (11 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-06-05 (11 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
No
License
Commercial
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
System Requirements Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
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 Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Widgets
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki MediaWiki Confluence
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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