ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. SharePoint Wiki Plus

General Features ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Version
2.67
1.32.2
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
Last Release Date
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2017-08-04 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-11 (5 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
KWizCom Corporation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL
per server
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
.NET - C#
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$3680
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
System Requirements ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows Server 2003/2008
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
Microsoft IIS
Other Requirements
none
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Datastorage ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Text Files
Yes
No
No
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
MS SQL Server
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
# 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 SharePoint Wiki Plus
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
CamelCase
Plugin
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
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
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Optional
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Output ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Optional
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki MediaWiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text=
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strike through</s>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<div align="right">
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
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
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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