Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. PhpWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Version
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
phpwiki-1.3.14
N/A
Last Release Date
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
LGPL
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Any
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
N/A
Other Requirements
None
various opt. helpers
N/A
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
N/A
Oracle
No
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
N/A
RCS
No
Yes
N/A
Other
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, templates, PHP
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki PBwiki
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
Underline Format
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
::centered text::
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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