| General Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
phpwiki-1.3.14
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2.67
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
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2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Any
|
Anyone
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End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Any, or none
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
various opt. helpers
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
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||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
plugins, templates, PHP
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Output | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[internal]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
**bold** __bold__ |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>above</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>below</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
  |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* list or - list |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# list |
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 |
| Definition Lists |
Term:<def> def |
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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