WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Version does not applydoes not applyTWiki 4.2.0 does not applydoes not apply
Last Release Date does not applydoes not apply2008-01-22 does not applydoes not apply
Author PBwiki, Inc. Socialtext Peter Thoeny, TWiki community Wetpaint.com Wikia, Inc.
URL pbwiki.com www.socialtext.com twiki.org and www.twiki.net www.wetpaint.com www.wikia.com
Free and Open Source does not applydoes not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply
License does not applydoes not applyGPL does not applydoes not apply
Programming Language does not applydoes not applyPerl does not applydoes not apply
Data Storage does not applydoes not applyFiles, RCS does not applydoes not apply
License Cost/ Fee Free / Premium (as little as $4/user/month) www.socialtext.com 0 Free $0
Development status does not applydoes not applyMature does not applydoes not apply
Intended Audience Businesses, Education, and Individuals Businesses, individuals & developers Large enterprise; small to medium businesses All users All users
Hosting FeaturesPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Storage Quota 10MB up to 10GB, additional storage available by quote Starts at 1GB & scales to unlimited storage does not applyUnlimited unlimited
Bandwidth Quota No limit Unlimited does not applyUnlimited unlimited
Other Limits None Unlimited wiki workspaces & pages does not apply  none
Topic Restrictions None None does not applyNo restrictions hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding Yes Yes does not apply Yes Yes
Own Domain Yes Yes does not apply Yes Optional
Ads allowed Yes No does not apply No Yes
System RequirementsPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Operating System does not applydoes not applyLinux, Windows, OS-X and other does not applydoes not apply
Root Access does not applydoes not apply No does not applydoes not apply
Webserver does not applydoes not applyAlmost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 does not applydoes not apply
Other Requirements does not applydoes not applyRCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies does not applydoes not apply
DatastoragePBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Text Files does not applydoes not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply
MySQL does not applydoes not apply No does not applydoes not apply
PostgreSQL does not applydoes not apply No does not applydoes not apply
Oracle does not applydoes not apply No does not applydoes not apply
SQLite does not applydoes not apply No does not applydoes not apply
BerkeleyDB does not applydoes not apply No does not applydoes not apply
RCS does not applydoes not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply
Other does not applydoes not applyRcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage does not applydoes not apply
Security/Anti-SpamPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends does not applydoes not applyInternal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos does not applydoes not apply
Host Blocking Optional Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Mail Encryption No Optional Yes   Yes
nofollow No Optional Plugin Yes Optional
Blacklist Optional Yes Plugin   Yes
CAPTCHA No Optional Plugin No Optional
Delayed Indexing No Optional Plugin No Optional
Development/SupportPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Commercial Support Yes, 2 listed Yes, 2 listed Yes, 21 listed Yes, 1 listed No
Preconfigured Hosting does not applydoes not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply
Code Repository does not applydoes not applytwiki.org does not applydoes not apply
Issue Tracker   www.socialtext.net twiki.org www.wetpaintcentral.com bugs.wikia.com
Mailing List   www.socialtext.net twiki.org   www.wikia.com
Support Forum getsatisfaction.com www.socialtext.net twiki.org www.wetpaintcentral.com www.wikia.com
IRC Channel   #socialtext twiki.org   #wikia on freenode
Common FeaturesPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes No Optional Yes Yes Yes
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Yes Yes   Yes
Plugin System Yes   Yes    
Special FeaturesPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Optional No No Yes
Interface Languages English, but help in 20+ languages see socialtext.net 14 English Only 150+ available
Email notification Yes Yes Yes Yes Optional
Comments Flat Flat Threaded Threaded Discussion Pages
Categories Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirection Plugin Optional Yes No Yes
Conflict Handling Page Locking Conflict Detection Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
LinksPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
CamelCase Yes Optional Yes No Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks No Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki No Yes Plugin Yes Yes
SisterWiki No Optional Plugin No Optional
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Optional Yes Yes   No
Syntax FeaturesPBwiki DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikia Details
HTML Tags All All All None Some
Math formulas Yes Optional Plugin   Yes
Tables simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support No Optional No No Optional
Markdown Support No Optional No No Optional
Textile Support No Optional Plugin No Optional
BBCode Support No Optional No No Optional
Emoticon Images Yes Optional Plugin Yes Optional