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| General Features | Confluence  | MediaWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.9 |
1.11.1 |
TWiki 4.2.2 |
| Last Release Date |
8 Aug 2008 |
2008-01-24 |
2008-08-11 |
| Author |
Atlassian |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
| URL |
www.atlassian.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
from US $1200 installed (unlimited wikis) or US $49/month hosted |
0 |
$0, and subscriptions for support |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
| Hosting Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Storage Quota |
10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
100GB/month |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Limits |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Own Domain |
 Optional |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Tomcat, Resin, Weblogic, JBoss, Orion, Websphere |
Any with PHP support |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
| Other Requirements |
Java 5 |
none |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
| Datastorage | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Oracle |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE |
No |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
Yes |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
| Host Blocking |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Blacklist |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Development/Support | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 17 listed |
Yes, 22 listed |
Yes, 22 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
Source included with commercial license |
svn.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
jira.atlassian.com |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
| Mailing List |
www.atlassian.com |
lists.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
| Support Forum |
forums.atlassian.com |
mwusers.com |
twiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Common Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Interface Languages |
15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
137 languages Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese |
16 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
No |
|
Optional |
| Structured Data |
|
|
Yes |
| Links | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Syntax Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin |
Some |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, JavaScript and more |
Optional |
JavaScript; TWiki variables; powerful API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | Confluence | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |