[QSOS-general] Wiki grid

[François Le Droff]

Hi there,

Just as Raphael did for ESB, I'm currently building a features matrix in 
order to compare Wiki open source solutions with the QSOS method 
(http://www.qsos.org/).

Here is a first draft, in case any of you have comments, feedback.

Thanks in advance,
Cheers !

François

(QSOS) wiki features list

System requirements

• system requirements or limitations on the server side
• web server requirements and compatibility list
• language support
• datastorage support :
• flat files (simple Text Files, other)
• Relational Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, other)
• XML Database (BerkeleyDB , other)
• Revision Control System (CVS, SVN, other)
• system requirements or limitations on the client/browser side
• browser compatibility list
• browser required enabling : cookies, _javascript_, CSS, XHTML, applet, SVG, flash, other

Page viewing, creating and linking

• the wiki pages (or documents) can be viewed, created or edited at anytime by anyone from a web browser (with certain limitations for protected areas cf. the security section below).
• page creation and naming/linking :
• CamelCase or Free links (The name of an article is embedded in the hyperlink)
• image links (is it possible to use image as links?)

Pages management and organisation

• internationalysed management interfaces
• pages organization
• Categories
• Namespaces (possible to create customed or specialized spaces within the wiki)
• categories, pages and namespaces refactoring :
• redirection
• renaming
• Conflict Handling, Page Locking (when the page is currently edited)

Pages statistics and lists

• list of all the existing pages, namespaces/categories and pages within namespaces/categories
• Backlinks: list of all the pages linking back to the current one
• Wanted Pages
• Undefined Pages : pages that are referred to, but not yet created
• Orphaned Pages : not currently referred to by any other page, thus meaning they are inaccessible through any other means
• locked pages
• Most/Least Popular pages
• Recently visited pages
• more

Security, anti-Spam, anti-vandalism and administration features

• administration features
• action granularity :
• global permissions or permissions separately set on
• viewing
• creating/editing
• commenting
• deleting
• programming (script or code snippset within the wiki code)
• scope granularity, page only permissions or:
• Space Permissions
• access granularity, user only persmissions or:
• user group management
• administration ease:
• Access control list or user group management
• Authentication Backends plugins (LDAP plugins...)
• anti spamming and vandalism
• Host Blocking (Deny access from IP list)
• nofollow (external links tags with rel="nofollow")
• Blacklist (of known URL ,word or content to associate with spam)
• CAPTCHA (for anonymous users)
• Delayed Indexing (of search engine, to have time to track down the spam and vandalism)
• misc :
• Mail Encryption

Page version control

• access to each pages history/versioning
• unlimited/limited number of document revisions
• supports for version differencing ("diff") and retrieving prior versions.
• Revision Diffs with the latest/all ?
• supports for retrieving/rollbacking to prior versions.
• rollback to the latest/all ?

Notifications of new content

• recent changes advertised in the wiki according to the today's date
• recent changes advertised in the wiki since user's last visit
• by RSS
• by e.mail
• by I.M.

Page editing

• pages are editable through the web browser.
• page language editing support
• Unicode Support
• i18n of documents : Internationalization and Multilingual capability for documents
• Right-to-Left Support (as for Hebrew and Arabic)
• page editing Usability
• Preview before saving
• Section Editing or whole page only editing
• Double-Click on the text to Edit
• editing Toolbar
• WYSIWYG Editing
• Access Keys (to save, edit, quit ...)
• wiki syntax or wikitext: ease of learning and using: writing, reading and modifying
• light weight markup language support : the most known are :
• CREOLE support : http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Home
• BBCode : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode
• Textile Support : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_%28markup_language%29, http://textism.com/tools/textile/
• Markdown Support : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
• BBCode Support : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode
• Radeox API : http://radeox.org/space/start
• TOC (Table of content) Auto-generation
• Tables edition ease: simple and complex (colspan and rowspan) table support
• HTML Tags allowed
• Internal Comments / comments in the wiki page code
• Content Includes : Inclusion of pages inside another wiki page
• MetaData Form and templating ability:
• Design Engine for Meta-Data and Forms, allowing to design custom forms with text fields, textarea fields, number fields, static select fields
• API to display meta-data in view and edit mode inside the Wiki page. (to create custom forms and templates and In-place (inline) editing of form information in pages).
• editing flags features : meta data added by the commiters when editing:
• Minor Changes flagging feature
• Change Summary

Pages comments and discussions

• access to a discussion/comment area particular to that page ?
• Is it possible comment the page by section or the whole document only ?

Media and Files attachement

• file attachements
• attached file revisions
• media embed ability:
• Flash
• Video

Search features:

• page search engine , search in
• content,
• filename,
• meta-data
• Media Search, search in
• content,
• filename,
• meta-data
• Search API for more detailed searching in the meta-data.

Pages and wiki export

• Printer Friendly
• RSS Feeds
• ATOM Feeds
• Raw Export
• HTML Export (without the wiki navigation element)
• XML export
• PDF Export
• custom output plugin-ability (RSS, FOAF)
• whole wiki backup ability

Skin-ability

• XHTML 1.0 compliant
• CSS compliant
• Custom styles / add CSS style
• Complete Skin System (templates content as well as CSS):
• User/UserGroup customizable interface

Plugin-ability and extensibility

• scripting/programming ability within the wiki page code
• programming API to create custom dynamic web applications only using the Wiki interface.
• XML/RPC Remote API
• Web Service plugin
• Feed Aggregation
• plugin ability
• adequate software architecture for custom plugin creation,
• easy plugin interface for writing your own additions
• supported plugin languages

Plugins, build-in objects/templates/macro :

• Table sorting plugin
• SpreadSheet plugin: Add spreadsheet formulae like $SUM($ABOVE()) to tables.
• Calendars
• blogs
• poll/vote edition
• photo albums
• slide shows
• Syntax Highlighting : hightlight (colorize) source code snippets when added to a wikipage
• Bug tracking system integration (tickets linking and meta data extraction)
• support for Math formulas edition and display
• LaTeX syntac support: to edit mathematical formulas in Latex syntax directly in the Wiki and display them as images
• Emoticon and other icon rendering through syntax
• Footnotes
• Quoting
• InterWiki : ease of interwiki linking (to wikipedia for instance)
• media editing features :
• Image Editing
• ChartPlugin : charts creation from wiki tables.
• other media in-line editor (SVG, MindMap ...)
• others: FAQ, meeting minutes, Action Tracker plugin, bookmarklet, Geolocalisation features: GeoURL or googleMaps plugins, Tagging and Tag clouds (delicio.us, technorati ...), etc