| General Features | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
|
3.2
|
2.3.33
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
|
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
|
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Hallo Welt! GmbH
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPLv3
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GPL2+
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GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
All
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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3582 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
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 |
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 |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Java Script
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
: indented line |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
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