Wiki Comparison Matrix
October 13th, 2006 by 
Phil
Initial wiki comparison table.
Some notes:
- Can’t be Windows-platform, otherwise technology-neutral
- Er, some other things.
| JSPWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | JotSpot | XWiki | |
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| support multiple wikis (or equivalent paradigm, like wikifarming) |  |
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| page history | |
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| LDAP authentication | |
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| export into at least one of: XML, PDF, DOC, | plugin | |
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| email notification | plugin | |
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| fine-grained access control (private, editor, reader for wikis and pages) | |
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| users can grant and revoke access to their wiki in a per-wiki administrator role | |
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| system-wide skinning/themeing | |
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| create page | |
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| delete page | |
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| page diff | |
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| attach file | |
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| delete file | |
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| file versioning | |
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| ability to use API for automatic group creation | |
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| add user to a group wiki | |
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| remove user from a group wiki | |
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| make user group wiki admin | |
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| Pricing | Free, open source | Free, open source | Prices, commercial (for our needs, c. £2000) | Unannounced price for server product (c. £100/month hosted), commercial | Free, open source |
Sorry about the whole “paradigm” thing.
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Just installed Mediwiki 1.8.1 on my own server, and I’m sure it said the reason it offered me a table prefix option was for multiple wikis on the same Db.
I’ll remove LocalSettings.php and check.
Posted by Anthony on October 13th, 2006 at 1:50 pmScrub that I’ve got my paradigms mixed up - it’s for multiple installations and not for multi-wiki management.
My apologies - delete and revoke all my privs!
Posted by Anthony on October 13th, 2006 at 1:58 pmI don’t think I can ever forgive you.
Posted by Pip on October 13th, 2006 at 3:03 pmsudo “I can forgive you”
Posted by Anthony on October 13th, 2006 at 3:23 pmCould you add a row for prices?
Posted by alf on October 16th, 2006 at 11:01 amDone (messily).
Posted by Pip on October 16th, 2006 at 1:21 pm