Introduction of HDWiki
HDWiki is the FIRST and the most comprehensive Chinese wiki software. It integrates web 2.0 elements like tag, digg, AJAX and etc. Outperforms mediawiki in many aspects.
comparison between Mediawiki and HDWiki
| General Features | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Version | 1.6.3 | Beta |
| Last Release | 2006-4-10 | 2006-11-28 |
| URL | www.mediawiki.org | kaiyuan.hudong.com |
| Free and Open Source | Yes | Yes |
| License | GPL | Open source |
| PHP/Ocaml | PHP | |
| Data Storage | Database | Database + File |
| License Cost/ fee | 0 | 0 |
| Development status | Mature | Beta |
| intended Audience | End Users/Desktop, Education | Websites, companies |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Operating System | UNIX, Windows, MacOS X | Linux, Windows |
| Webserver | Apache, anything with PHP support | Apache, anything with PHP support |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Text Files | No | No |
| MySQL | Yes | Yes |
| PostgreSQL | No | |
| Oracle | Yes | No |
| SQLite | No | No |
| No | No | |
| RCS | No | No |
| Other | No | No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Page Permissions | Yes | Yes |
| authentication Backends | Yes | Yes |
| Host blocking | Yes | No |
| Mail Encryption | No | No |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Commercial Support | No | Optional |
| preconfigured Hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Code repository | svn.wikimedia.org | No |
| Issue Tracker | bugzilla.wikimedia.org | Yes |
| Mailing List | mail.wikipedia.org | No |
| Support Forum | mwusers.com | www.hudong.com/g/kaiyuan |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Preview | Yes | Yes |
| Minor Changes | Yes | Yes |
| Change Summary | Yes | Yes |
| Page History | Yes | Yes |
| Page Revisions | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs | Between all | Between all (easier to identify) |
| Page Index | Yes | Yes |
| contributor Recogonition | No | Yes (with avatar, ranking, hits, signatures, blog URL and so on) |
| Collaborator List | No | Yes (with avatar, edits and so on) |
| User score & ranking | No | Yes (no ranking) |
| Drafting | No | No |
| Recommend wiki item to friends | No | No |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Unicode Support | Yes | Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support | Yes | No |
| Interface Languages | 60+ | Chinese (Easy to translate into other languages) |
| Email notification | Optional | Optional |
| Comments | Discussion Pages | Threaded |
| Categories | Yes | Yes |
| Namespaces | Yes | Yes |
| Conflict Handling | Conflict Resolution | Conflict Resolution |
| Search | Full Text | Full Text |
| Ajax-enabled Wiki item mouse-over abstract show-up | No | Yes ( Ajax enabled, excellent user experience) |
| Tag | No | Yes |
| Digg | No | No |
| Related wiki items | No | No |
| Personal wiki (Wikispace) | No | No |
| Wikigroup | No | No |
| Community features | Weak (talk page) | Strong |
| Rich format (text, pic, table, …) | No | Yes |
| Search | Full Text | Full Text |
| Links | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| No | No | |
| Freelinks | Yes | Yes |
| Yes | Yes | |
| InterWiki | Yes | Yes |
| SisterWiki | No | Yes |
| Image Links | Yes | Yes |
| Usability | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Section Editing | Yes | Yes |
| Double-Click Edit | Optional | Yes |
| Toolbar | Yes | Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing | Yes ( visual editor) | |
| Access Keys | Yes | Yes |
| Auto Signature | Yes | Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Recent Changes | Yes | Yes |
| Wanted Pages | Yes | Yes |
| Orphaned Pages | Yes | Yes |
| Most/Least Popular | Yes | Yes |
| Recent Visitors | No | Yes |
| Analysis | Optional | Optional |
| Output | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| HTML | XHTML 1.0 Transitional | XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets | Yes | Yes |
| Printer friendly | Print CSS | Print CSS |
| RSS Feeds | Yes | No |
| Auto-TOC | Yes | Yes |
| HTML export | Yes | No |
| XML export | Yes | No |
| WORD export | No | No |
| PDF Export | Optional | No |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| File Attachements | Yes | Yes |
| Embedded Flash | Plugin | Yes |
| Embedded Video | No | Yes |
| Media Search | Keywords | No (Available in next version) |
| SYNTAX Examples | MediaWiki | HDWiki |
| Internal Link | [[a link]] | Visual editing without remembering complicated syntax |
| | [[a link|with title]] |
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| External Link | [http://example.org The title] |
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| ==Section== |
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| | ===Subsection=== |
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| | ====Sub-subsection==== |
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| bold Format | '''bold''' |
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| italics Format | ''italic'' |
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