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MediaWiki is a very popular PHP/MySQL WikiEngine wiki engine, whose success comes mainly from projects (like the Wikipedia) that run on this engine. Because of Wikipedia's success, the majority of users tacitly assume that MediaWiki is the only free PHP engine for running a wiki-site. There is a large number of wiki engines, coded in different languages and developed to meet different kinds of need.

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.

 MediaWikiWikkaWiki
General information
Latest stable release1.4.51.1.6.0
LanguagePHP 4+PHP 4.1+
DependenciesExternal (non-packaged) library required for PHP<4.31none
Data storageMySQLMySQL 3.23+
LicenseGPLGPL
Package size (.tar.gz)1,940Kb524Kb
Text formatting
Boldyes ('''bold''' / HTML)yes (**bold**)
Italicsyes (''italics'' / HTML)yes (//italics//)
Bold Italicsyes (''''bold italics'''')yes (**//bold italics//**)
Underlineyes (HTML)yes (__underline__)
Monospaceyes (HTML)yes (##monospace##)
Strikethroughyes (HTML)yes (++strikehrough++)
Highlighted notesnoyes (''note'')
Colored textnoyes ({{color}} action)
Smallyes (HTML)yes (HTML)
Superscriptyes (HTML)yes (HTML)
Subscriptyes (HTML)yes (HTML)
Keynoyes (#%key#%)
Centeryes (HTML)yes (@@center@@)
Greek characters (α β γ δ)yes (HTML)yes (HTML)
Math characters (∑ √ ± ∞)yes (HTML)yes (HTML)
Advanced math markupyes (TeX to HTML/PNG)limited (HTML)

Headings

yes (3 levels)yes (6 levels)
Horizontal rulesyes (----)yes (----)
Indentationyes (: indented text)yes (~indented text)
Lists
  • Unordered
  • lists
    yes (* list item)yes (~- list item)
    1. Numbered
    2. lists
      yes (# list item)yes (~1) list item)
      1. Roman-number
      2. lists
        noyes (~I) list item)
        1. Lowercase
        2. roman-number
        3. lists
          noyes (~i) list item)
          1. Alphabetic
          2. lists
            noyes (~A) list item)
            1. Lowercase
            2. alphabetic
            3. lists
              noyes (~a) list item)
              • Inline
                • comments
              noyes (~& comment)
              Definition listsyes (;item :definition)no
              Nested listsyesyes (limited)
              Page-related features
              Printer-friendly CSSyesyes
              Page indexyesyes
              Editing
              Preview-paneyesyes
              Double-click editnoyes
              Section editingyesno
              Edit noteyesyes
              Minor edit flagyesno
              Tracking changes
              Recent changesyesyes (recently changed pages)
              Recent changes RSSnoyes (RSS 0.92)
              Recent changes MindMapnoyes
              Recent changes broadcastingnoyes2
              Recent commentsyesyes (recent comments and recently commented pages)
              Recent comments RSSnono
              Page historyyesyes
              Page revision differencesyesyes
              Page revisions RSS?yes (RSS 2.0)
              Formatting features
              Embedded objects
              Page administration

              [1] PHP_Compat library from PEAR is required. This library doesn't need the PEAR core.

              [2] Changes can be broadcast to an external server through the WikiPing XML-RPC protocol.





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