Basic general information about the distributions: creator/company, license/price etc. (Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc does a great job rendering this table useful)
| Features |
BrainKeeper |
Central Desktop |
Confluence |
CorendalWiki |
coWiki |
DekiWiki |
DidiWiki |
DokuWiki |
EditMe |
FlexWiki |
Features |
Instiki |
JotSpot |
JSPWiki |
MediaWiki |
Midgard Wiki |
MoinMoin |
OpenWiki |
Features |
OpenLink Wiki |
PAUX |
Perspective |
PhpWiki |
PmWiki |
Swiki |
TikiWiki |
Features |
TWiki |
UseModWiki |
WackoWiki |
Wiclear |
WikkaWiki |
WikkiTikkiTavi |
XWiki |
ZWiki |
Features |
| File uploading / attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
File uploading / attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
File uploading / attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
File uploading / attachments |
Yes |
Yes? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
File uploading / attachments |
| Spam prevention |
Yes, CAPTCHA |
Yes, CAPTCHA |
Yes, CAPTCHA |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes, blacklist |
No, blacklist |
? |
Spam prevention |
No |
No |
Yes, content by regexp |
Yes, URL blacklist[59], word blacklist[60], IP blocking, captchas (as used on wikinews) |
No |
Yes, BadContent filtering via Regular Expressions |
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Spam prevention |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes, CPAN Blog::SpamAssassin |
Yes, blocking words, IP addresses (addon), limiting the quantity of non-approved URLs (option), by encrypting the email address (addon) |
Yes, block IP Addresses, words, UserIDs |
Yes |
Spam prevention |
Yes, IP blacklist, content by regexp, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses |
? |
Yes, referrer blacklist |
Yes, blacklist captcha |
Yes, referrer blacklist (module), HTTP REQUEST analysis (module) |
Yes, Captcha |
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Yes |
Spam prevention |
| Page access control[61] |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, due to UNIX-style permissions |
Yes |
No |
Yes, optional |
Yes, optional |
No? |
Page access control[62] |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes RDoc |
Page access control[63] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (per collection) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Page access control[64] |
Yes |
Yes? |
Yes |
Yes, available for plugin too |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Page access control[65] |
| Inline HTML[66] |
Yes |
Yes |
optional |
Yes |
No |
optional |
escaped |
optional |
Yes |
No |
Inline HTML[67] |
Yes |
Yes, optional |
Yes, optional |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Inline HTML[68] |
Yes |
Yes |
parameterized Raw Includes |
plugin |
module |
Yes |
Yes |
Inline HTML[69] |
Yes |
Yes? |
Yes - configurable/safe |
Yes |
Yes - configurable/safe |
Yes - configurable/safe |
Yes |
Yes |
Inline HTML[70] |
| User-customizable interface[71] |
yes, templates, html, custom navigation portal, custom data fields |
yes, templates and themes, html and css |
yes, templates and themes |
Velocity templates + CSS |
hand-edited templates, document "Print version" |
yes |
style-sheets |
CSS, PHP; heavily documented PHP API |
CSS, XSLT, user editable navigation |
style-sheets, templates, WikiTalk |
User-customizable interface[72] |
CSS |
CSS |
templates |
many features are user-customizable, templates[73] |
templates, CSS |
CSS, XSLT, user editable navigation |
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User-customizable interface[74] |
templates, skins, user CSS, XSLT |
templates, skins, user CSS |
XSLT, CSS |
themes; un-documented |
themes, user CSS, ... |
For aniwebs, CSS |
themes, user CSS, modules |
User-customizable interface[75] |
templates, skins, user CSS |
CSS |
themes, style-sheets |
themes, style-sheets |
style-sheets |
style-sheets |
style-sheets, templates, themes |
style-sheets, templates, skins |
User-customizable interface[76] |
| Document renaming |
Yes |
No |
Yes, links are updated |
Yes |
Yes, all pages are seamlessly updated |
Yes |
rename the document file |
Yes, plugin |
Yes |
Yes, old page becomes a redirect |
Document renaming |
No |
Yes |
Patch available |
Yes, old page becomes a redirect |
No |
Yes, old page can be a redirect |
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Document renaming |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, with aliases |
Yes |
Template:Module |
Yes, updating all backlinks |
Yes |
Document renaming |
Yes, fixing backlinks |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Document renaming |
| Features |
BrainKeeper |
Central Desktop |
Confluence |
CorendalWiki |
coWiki |
DekiWiki |
DidiWiki |
DokuWiki |
EditMe |
FlexWiki |
Features |
Instiki |
JotSpot |
JSPWiki |
MediaWiki |
Midgard Wiki |
MoinMoin |
OpenWiki |
Features |
OpenLink Wiki |
PAUX |
Perspective |
PhpWiki |
PmWiki |
Swiki |
TikiWiki |
Features |
TWiki |
UseModWiki |
WackoWiki |
Wiclear |
WikkaWiki |
WikkiTikkiTavi |
XWiki |
ZWiki |
Features |
| WYSIWYG page editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
No |
YesQuickbuttons |
Yes |
No |
WYSIWYG page editing |
No |
Yes |
Partial, alpha |
Partial, special MediaWiki 1.5.3 experimental version EnotifWiki + FCKeditor |
No |
Yes, v1.5+ |
No |
WYSIWYG page editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, IE, Mozilla & Firefox |
Template:Module |
No, but possible future feature |
No |
Partial, just visual quicktag insertion |
WYSIWYG page editing |
Yes, pre-installed plugin |
No? |
Yes, WikiEdit |
No |
Yes, WikiEdit |
No |
Yes, using HTMLArea |
Yes, using Epoz |
WYSIWYG page editing |
| Web feeds |
Yes, RSS |
Yes, RSS |
Yes, RSS |
No |
Yes, RSS[77] |
Yes, RSS, XML, JSON |
No |
Yes, RSS/Atom[78] |
Yes, RSS |
Yes, RSS |
Web feeds |
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Yes, RSS, per page |
Yes, RSS, per page |
Yes, RSS/Atom |
Yes, RSS, all changes |
Yes, RSS, last changes |
|
Web feeds |
Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF |
Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF |
Yes, RSS (last day's changes) |
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Yes |
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Web feeds |
Yes, RSS/Atom |
Yes |
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Yes, RSS/Atom |
Yes, Single page/Comments/Global |
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Yes, RSS/Atom |
Web feeds |
| Extensibility |
|
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plugins written in Java |
patch mechanism |
plugins via an OOP interface |
API, Service Oriented Architecture |
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custom regexps |
javascript |
ASP, WikiTalk, .Net Reflection plugins |
Extensibility |
fairly trivial with minimal Ruby knowledge |
plugins, server-side Javascript |
plugins, filters, providers |
actions, handlers |
PHP component architecture |
different plugin types |
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Extensibility |
plugins, Virtuoso hosted PHP integration |
actions |
HTML Includes, XSLT includes that can take external URL contents, .Net action classes |
plugins |
very, 100+ plugins |
Some |
60+ plugins & mods |
Extensibility |
240+ plugins, 50+ addons |
? |
actions, handlers |
plugins |
actions, handlers |
bunch of custom stuff in php |
plugins, macros, scripts, applications |
all Zope plugins, LaTeX, and more |
Extensibility |
| Other Notable features |
Enterprise-level Search, Interactive Dashboard, Tagging, Content Workflow, Custom Data Fields, Simple but Comprehensive Administration |
Block architecture, Calendars, Discussions, Database feature, Tasks and Milestones Blocks available |
Enterprise level security, Simple admin interface, Open plugin API, Tagging, Fully supported |
For Corporate environments. Articles hierarchy. Integrated with Active Directory users and groups, NTLM authentication, Workflow, Revisions, Subscriptions, WYSIWYG editor, Access Control (Read and Write) |
Data saved hierarchic (web trees) and in XML, per-page threaded comments, comfortable installation wizard |
Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by MindTouch company website |
extremely fast and requires very little RAM, built-in web server |
Section Editing, XHTML-Compliant, nice tables, side-by-side diff, namespaces, Interwiki |
Multi-level access controls, hosted solution, side-by-side diff, Email notifications |
Forms, Scripting |
Other Notable features |
Trivial to set up on any platform that supports Ruby. Can use different (administrator-set) markup languages. Supports inline HTML, Textile, Markdown, and RDoc. |
Support for server-side Javascript, VMWare virtual appliance |
Weblog integration |
Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification (built in, but currently disabled on Wikipedia) |
CMS integration |
Email notification, additional desktop edition |
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Other Notable features |
Based on WebDAV can be maintained by any WebDAV user agent, LDAP Integration, OpenLink Data Space Integration, Publish wiki in other formats (Docbook and HTML), Wiki Cluster and Tag support, WYSIWIG Editor, Revisions, Access Control List |
Individualized publication of dynamic content, which contains reusable semantic content objects. They are able to represent knowledge in its full complexity, and they make knowledge available as filterable content for Websites, semantic Wiki, detailed-evaluated eLearning and individualized print media. |
Searching over MS Office documents, can search files in folders outside of the Wiki (including MS Office files), Active Directory integration |
support all databases |
Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically cameleon-like |
Installs own webserver (Commanche) and can co-exist with IIS or Apache. Aniweb function provides owner control of granular access and creates access groups. Users tracked by email address. |
ACLs, calendaring, charting, email notification, form handling and reporting, slideshow presentations, spreadsheet calculations and GRAPHS, mobile, GIS (MapServer), JGraphPad for drawings inside wikipages, 3d Browsing, Workspaces, Workflows, OpenOffice WYSIWYG editing of Tikiwiki content, Multitiki installations |
Other Notable features |
Revision control, ACLs for topics, tagging, blogging, calendaring, charting, global search & replace, email notification, form handling and reporting, platform to build wiki applications, graphing, slideshow presentations, 10 translations, plotting, multistyle diffs, advanced searching, spreadsheet calculations, WYSIWYG supports TML, available as a VMware appliance |
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multilingual, WYSIWYG-like editor, ACLs, subpages, comments, files, email notification, cloning of pages, installation wizard... |
hierarchical pages, linked translations, multilingual, ACLs, section editing, XHTML compliant, side-by-side diff, email notifications, admin panel, moderator/admin/user |
FreeMind support, ACLs, cloning of pages, advanced syntax highlighting using GeSHi, on-the-fly downloading of codeblocks |
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Forms and Scripting, Multilingual, Database storage, Fulltext search, GraphViz, SVG, Freemind |
hierarchical pages, revision control, fulltext search, email notification, issue tracker, LaTeX integration |
Other Notable features |
| Installation |
BrainKeeper |
Central Desktop |
Confluence |
CorendalWiki |
coWiki |
DekiWiki Install Guide |
DidiWiki |
DokuWiki |
EditMe |
FlexWiki |
Installation |
Instiki |
JotSpot |
JSPWiki |
MediaWiki |
Midgard Wiki |
MoinMoin |
OpenWiki |
Installation |
OpenLink Wiki |
PAUX |
Perspective |
PhpWiki |
PmWiki |
Swiki |
TikiWiki |
Installation |
TWiki |
UseModWiki |
WackoWiki |
Wiclear |
WikkaWiki |
WikkiTikkiTavi |
XWiki |
ZWiki |
Installation |
| Runs on Windows |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, with Cygwin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Runs on Windows |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Runs on Windows |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, with Apache+PHP5 or IIS+PHP4 |
Yes |
Yes |
Runs on Windows |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Runs on Windows |
| Ease of installation[79] |
Hosted - no installation or setup required |
Hosted - no set requred |
Easy, Configuration Wizard |
Moderately simple |
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Hosted, Moderately simple, Appliance |
simple |
Moderately simple |
None Required |
Moderately simple |
Ease of installation[80] |
Trivial |
Easy, VMWare virtual appliance |
Moderately simple |
Moderately simple |
Easy, requires root |
Easy for Desktop version |
Easy |
Ease of installation[81] |
Easy |
Easy |
Moderately simple |
Moderately simple |
Very Easy |
Very Easy: Just drag the image file over the executable or (non-GUI) just use the image file as an executable parameter |
Moderately simple, easier for multiple installations; requires telnet/ssh |
Ease of installation[82] |
Native install: Easy on *nix, moderately difficult on Windows. Installation as a VMware appliance is point and click. |
Easy? |
Quick and easy, multilingual installer |
Easy, in 4 steps, update wizard |
Easy installation/upgrade, through web-wizard |
Moderate |
Simple package for Windows Available |
Moderate (easy if Zope is already installed) |
Ease of installation[83] |
| Web-server required |
None |
None |
Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container. |
Tomcat, Oracle Application Server |
Apache with PHP |
Apache |
None (built-in) |
Should work on any web server with PHP |
None Required |
IIS/Apache |
Web-server required |
None (built-in) |
None (built-in) |
any servlet 2.3-compliant web server |
Apache or IIS with PHP 5.0+ |
Apache with PHP |
None for Desktop version |
IIS |
Web-server required |
OpenLink Virtuoso |
None (built-in) |
IIS |
Any Web-server with PHP |
Any Web-server with PHP, can run without a web server. |
None--installs own server. Can coexist with IIS and Apache by running on alternate port |
Any Web-server with PHP |
Web-server required |
Any Web-server with cgi support. A web-server is not a requirement with VMware appliance distribution (appliance has Apache pre-installed). |
? |
Apache v1.3.x (v2 recommended), IIS |
Apache with PHP. IIS untested |
Any Web-server with PHP |
Any Web-server with PHP |
Tomcat or Jetty |
Zope |
Web-server required |
| Other software required |
None |
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Java 1.4 |
Java, MySQL or Oracle, Tomcat or Oracle Application Server |
MySQL, PHP |
Mono, MySQl, PHP |
none |
PHP |
None |
ASP.Net/Mono |
Other software required |
Ruby |
VMWare Player |
Java 1.4 |
MySQL, PHP5 |
MySQL, PHP |
Python |
ASP |
Other software required |
OpenLink Virtuoso |
Java |
.NET Runtime 1.1 |
PHP |
PHP |
None |
PHP |
Other software required |
Perl, RCS |
Perl |
MySQL, PHP |
MySQL, PHP |
MySQL/PHP |
MySQL/PHP |
MySQL or HSQLDB |
Python (included with most Zope installs) |
Other software required |
| Miscellaneous |
BrainKeeper |
Central Desktop |
Confluence |
CorendalWiki |
coWiki |
DekiWiki |
DidiWiki |
DokuWiki |
EditMe |
FlexWiki |
Miscellaneous |
Instiki |
JotSpot |
JSPWiki |
MediaWiki |
Midgard Wiki |
MoinMoin |
OpenWiki |
Miscellaneous |
OpenLink Wiki |
PAUX |
Perspective |
PhpWiki |
PmWiki |
Swiki |
TikiWiki |
Miscellaneous |
TWiki |
UseModWiki |
WackoWiki |
Wiclear |
WikkaWiki |
WikkiTikkiTavi |
XWiki |
ZWiki |
Miscellaneous |
| Creator (and Maintainer) |
BrainKeeper, Inc. |
Central Desktop Inc. |
Atlassian Software Systems |
Thierry Danard |
Daniel T. Gorski; Paul Hanchett |
MindTouch, OpenGarden.org |
Matthew Allum |
Andreas Gohr |
EditMe, LLC |
David Ornstein |
Creator (and Maintainer) |
David Heinemeier Hansson |
JotSpot |
Janne Jalkanen |
Magnus Manske; Various |
Henri Bergius |
Jürgen Hermann; Thomas Waldmann; ... |
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Creator (and Maintainer) |
Openlink Software |
PAUX |
Alan Slater |
Steve Wainstead, ... |
Patrick Michaud |
Mark Guzdial; Joachim Rick |
Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays) |
Creator (and Maintainer) |
Peter Thoeny and TWiki community |
Clifford Adams |
Roman Ivanov |
David Jobet |
Wikka Development Team |
Tavi |
Ludovic Dubost |
Simon Michael |
Creator (and Maintainer) |
| Predecessor |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Template:MediaWiki |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Predecessor |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
PikiPiki |
? |
Predecessor |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
WikiWikiWeb |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Predecessor |
JosWiki |
AtisWiki |
WakkaWiki |
N/A |
WakkaWiki |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Predecessor |
| Cost (USD) |
Free Version Available, Subscriptions start at $35/month |
Free Ver Available, Paid plans start at $25/month |
Free (open source or non-profit), USD $1200 commercial, $600 academic |
Free |
Free |
Free hosted at Wiki.com or ViaWiki.com (paid hosted versions too), Free open source version available for download at OpenGarden.org, MindTouch DekiBox Appliance, Paid enterprise versions available at MindTouch.com as well |
Free |
Free |
From $5/mo |
Free |
Cost (USD) |
Free |
From $100/mo |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Cost (USD) |
Free (open source ), Commercial License also available |
From €300/mo |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Cost (USD) |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Free |
Cost (USD) |
| Software license [84] |
Commercial |
Commercial |
Commercial |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL v2 |
GPL |
GPL v2 |
Commercial |
FlexWiki Shared Source Licensing Program |
Software license [85] |
Ruby License [86] |
Commercial |
LGPL |
GPL v2 |
LGPL |
GPL |
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Software license [87] |
GPL and Commercial License |
Free and Commercial License |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
LGPL |
Software license [88] |
GPL |
GPL |
BSD |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL/LGPL |
GPL |
Software license [89] |
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BrainKeeper |
Central Desktop |
Confluence |
CorendalWiki |
coWiki |
DekWiki |
DidiWiki |
DokuWiki |
EditMe |
FlexWiki |
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Instiki |
JotSpot |
JSPWiki |
MediaWiki |
Midgard Wiki |
MoinMoin |
OpenWiki |
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OpenLink Wiki |
PAUX |
Perspective |
PhpWiki |
PmWiki |
Swiki |
TikiWiki |
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TWiki |
UseModWiki |
WackoWiki |
Wiclear |
WikkaWiki |
WikkiTikkiTavi |
XWiki |
Zwiki |
