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MediaWiki vs. WikkaWiki
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Feature comparison table
The aim of the table below is to compare the most prominent features of WikkaWiki and MediaWiki. This list is far from exhaustive: the best way to understand what wiki engine fits your needs is to install it and give it a try.
MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | |
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General information | ||
Latest stable release | 1.4.5 | 1.1.6.0 |
Language | PHP 4+ | PHP 4.1+ |
Dependencies | External (non-packaged) library required for PHP<4.31 | none |
Data storage | MySQL | MySQL 3.23+ |
Standards | XHTML 1.0 Transitional / CSS | XHTML 1.0 Transitional / CSS |
License | GPL | GPL |
Package size (.tar.gz) | 1,940Kb | 524Kb |
Text formatting | ||
Headings | yes (3 levels) | yes (5 levels) |
Bold | yes ('''bold''' / <b>bold</b> 2) | yes (**bold** ) |
Italics | yes (''italics'' / <i>italics</i> 2) | yes (//italics// ) |
Bold Italics | yes (''''bold italics'''' ) | yes (**//bold italics//** ) |
Underline | yes (<u>underline</u> 2) | yes (__underline__ ) |
Monospace | yes ( <tt>monospace</tt> 2) | yes (##monospace## ) |
yes ( <strike>strikethrough</strike> 2) | yes (++strikehrough++ ) | |
Highlighted notes | no | yes (''note'' ) |
Colored text | yes2 | yes ({{color}} action) |
Small | yes ( <small>small</small> 2) | yes3 |
Superscript | yes2 | yes3 |
Subscript | yes2 | yes3 |
Key | no | yes (#%key#% ) |
Center | yes2 | yes (@@center@@ ) |
Greek characters (α β γ δ ) | yes2 | yes3 |
Math characters (∑ √ ± ∞ ) | yes2 | yes3 |
Horizontal rules | yes (---- ) | yes (---- ) |
Indentation | yes (: indented text ) | yes (~indented text ) |
Newlines | yes2 | yes (--- ) |
Anchors | yes2 | yes3 |
Lists | ||
| yes (* list item ) | yes (~- list item ) |
| yes (# list item ) | yes (~1) list item ) |
| no | yes (~I) list item ) |
| no | yes (~i) list item ) |
| no | yes (~A) list item ) |
| no | yes (~a) list item ) |
| no | yes (~& comment ) |
Definition lists | yes (;item :definition ) | no |
Nested lists | yes | yes (limited) |
Advanced formatting features | ||
Tables | yes | yes |
Advanced math markup | yes (TeX to HTML/PNG) | limited3 |
Tables of Content (TOC) | yes | no |
Syntax highlighting | no | yes4 |
Links | ||
Auto CamelCase links | no | yes |
Auto URL links | no | yes |
Free links | yes | no |
Forced links | yes | yes |
Interwiki links | yes | yes |
Link labels | yes | yes |
Word-extension links | yes | no |
Footnotes | yes | no |
Fragment links | yes | no |
Image links | yes | yes |
Broken links (missing pages) | yes | yes |
Embedded objects | ||
Images | yes | inline/ {{image}} action |
Flash | no | yes ({{flash}} action) |
SVG | no | no |
Embedded RSS | no | yes ({{rss}} action) |
Mindmaps | no | yes (FreeMind5) |
HTML | limited2 | full/safe3 |
Editing | ||
Preview-pane | yes | yes |
Double-click edit | no | yes |
Section editing | yes | no |
Edit note | yes | yes |
Minor edit flag | yes | no |
GUI | yes | yes |
Edit conflict management | yes (automatic merge) | yes (lock) |
Tracking changes | ||
Recent changes | yes | yes (recently changed pages) |
Recent changes RSS | no | yes (RSS 0.92) |
Recent changes MindMap | no | yes |
Recent changes broadcasting | no | yes6 |
Recent comments | yes | yes (recent comments and recently commented pages) |
Recent comments RSS | no | no |
Page history | yes | yes |
Page revision differences | yes (all) | yes (all) |
Page revisions RSS | ? | yes (RSS 2.0) |
Page watch | yes | no |
User contributions | yes | yes |
Page-related features | ||
Access control | page locks | ACL lists (default/per page)7 |
Comments | yes (discussion) | yes (with ACL) |
Categories | yes | yes |
Namespaces | yes | no |
Subpages | yes | no |
Backlinks | yes | yes |
Search-engine friendly titles | yes | yes8 |
Page cloning | no | yes |
Page deletion | yes | yes (admin only) |
Page redirection | yes | no |
Page inclusion | no | yes |
Page renaming | yes | no |
Page source export | yes (XML) | yes (raw text) |
Site-related features | ||
Recently viewed pages | no | no |
Most popular pages | yes | no |
Orphaned pages | yes | yes |
Wanted pages | yes | yes |
Page index | yes | yes |
Search engine | yes | yes |
Layout | ||
User customizable interface | yes (templates/themes) | yes (stylesheets) |
Print CSS (media="print" ) | yes | yes |
User-related features | ||
User privileges | yes (different levels) | yes (admins/registered/anonymous)7 |
User registration | yes | yes |
Password retrieval | yes | yes |
User preferences | yes | yes |
Auto-signature | yes | no |
I18n & l10n | ||
Localized interface | yes | no |
Unicode support | full | limited |
Extras | ||
Calendar | no | yes |
Feedback forms | no | yes ({{feedback}} action) |
File uploads | yes | yes ({{files}} action) |
Image uploads | yes | no |
Image gallery | yes | no |
Image resizing | yes9 | no |
Site administration | ||
Referrer management/antispam | ? | yes |
Site statistics | extensive | basic |
User list | yes | yes |
User banning/blacklisting | yes | no |
Installer | ? | web-based wizard |
Upgrader | ? | web-based wizard (from previous versions and from WakkaWiki) |
URL rewriting | yes | yes |
Database lock | yes | no |
Complete logs | yes | no |
Notes:
[1] PHP_Compat library from PEAR is required. This library doesn't need the PEAR core.
[2] A limited set of HTML tags can be directly used in the source.
[3] HTML can be safely embedded through SafeHTML in double-doublequotes, e.g. ""<sub>subscript</sub>""
.
[4] Advanced syntax highlighting in different languages through GeSHi.
[5] FreeMind mindmaps can be either embedded or inline.
[6] Changes can be broadcast to an external server through the WikiPing XML-RPC protocol.
[7] Access Control Lists can be set on a per-page basis to allow [admins|single users|no users|registered users|anonymous users] to [read|write|comment] page content.
[8] The SmartTitle function allows HTML titles different from the pagename.
[9] Requires ImageMagick or libgd on the server
Reviews & user feedback
- TextPattern Support Forum
[2005-06-01]
David, I fully agree I installed WikkaWiki locally today and I have played with it some and it’s just what I was looking for. It has all the features that I wanted without feeling like it is bloated like MediaWiki can be at times (Niloc)
- The Site5 Community Forum
[2005-05-22]
- New Wikka user, since march 2005. Have been customizing it a bit, and like the performance and flexibility a lot! [...] Thanks for WikkaWiki, It's a great program and can run circles around MediaWiki anytime :)
- WikkaWiki is also much faster than MediaWiki. I tried that for a little while, and found that it was too slow. Anyway, I like how there's so much development going into WikkaWiki.
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