By Khoa Huynh - Vina Consulting
Recently, I am looking for the good wiki system for some my sites. The selection process is not the easy job as there are hundred of looking good system out there . The first thing is checked is the famous guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software .My basic need are: the good, flexible , easy to extend and modify , can install on LAMP environment , and can handle large site content . Article can be classified into categories, groups or sub-wiki . Also need system can handle file attachment, media and feed. Security also a concerned matter. Another one is I want to go with open sources licenses .
From this point , I came with candidate list below:
DokuWiki
MediaWiki
PhpWiki
TikiWiki
From MediaPedia:
| Features | My Priority | DokuWiki (www.dokuwiki.org) | MediaWiki (www.mediawiki.org) | TikiWiki (tikiwiki.org) |
| File uploading / attachments | High | Y | Y | Y |
| Spam prevention | High | Y | Y | Y |
| Page access control | High | Y | Y | Y |
| Inline HTML | Normal | Y | Y | Y |
| User-customizable interface | Normal | Y | Partial | Y |
| Document renaming | Normal | Y | Y | Y |
| WYSIWYG editing | High | Y | N | Y |
| Web feeds | Low | Y | Y | Y |
| Extensibility | High | Y | Y | Y |
| Cross-wiki support | Normal | Section Editing, XHTML-Compliant nice tables side-by-side diff namespaces | Y | Y |
From WikiPedia , all 3 solutions look good the same ad all have major features need for Wiki , so I go to wikimatrix and each web homepage to check again each features in detail .Here is the detail list :
General Features:
| Version | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last Release Date | 2008-05-05 | 2008-01-24 | 2008-10-17 | |
| Author | Andreas Gohr | Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. | TikiWiki Community | |
| URL | www.dokuwiki.org | www.mediawiki.org | tikiwiki.org | |
| License | GPL 2 | GPL | LGPL | |
| Programming Language | PHP | PHP | PHP | |
| Data Storage | Files | Database | Database | |
| Intended Audience | private, small to medium companies | End Users/Desktop, Education | Needing not just a wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. I like it |