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Feature Comparison
| General Features | PBwiki  | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
does not apply | does not apply |  TWiki 4.3.2 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Last Release Date |
does not apply | does not apply | 2009-09-02 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Author |
PBworks |
Socialtext |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Wetpaint.com |
Wikia, Inc. |
| URL |
pbworks.com |
www.socialtext.com |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
www.wetpaint.com |
www.wikia.com |
| Free and Open Source |
does not apply | does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License |
does not apply | does not apply | GPL |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Programming Language |
does not apply | does not apply | Perl |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Data Storage |
does not apply | does not apply | Files, RCS |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
$20/user/month |
www.socialtext.com |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
Free; Premium; Ad-free for Education |
$0 |
| Development status |
does not apply | does not apply | Mature |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
Businesses |
Businesses, individuals & developers |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
All users |
All users |
| Hosting Features | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Storage Quota |
No limit |
Starts at 1GB & scales to unlimited storage |
does not apply | Unlimited |
unlimited |
| Bandwidth Quota |
No limit |
Unlimited |
does not apply | Unlimited |
unlimited |
| Other Limits |
 None |
Unlimited wiki workspaces & pages |
does not apply | |
none |
| Topic Restrictions |
None |
None |
does not apply | No 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 Requirements | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Operating System |
does not apply | does not apply | Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Root Access |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Webserver |
does not apply | does not apply | Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
does not apply | does not apply | RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Datastorage | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Text Files |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| MySQL |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Oracle |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| SQLite |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| RCS |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other |
does not apply | does not apply | RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
does not apply | does not apply | Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
does not apply | does 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 |
Yes |
Optional |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Development/Support | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 7 listed |
Yes, 34 listed |
No |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Code Repository |
does not apply | does not apply | twiki.org |
does not apply | does 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 Features | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| 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 |
Yes |
|
| Special Features | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
Not localized |
|
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Not localized |
|
| 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 |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
does not apply | does not apply | Optional |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
|
|
| Links | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| 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 |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Page Redirects |
|
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| 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 |
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Footnotes |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Scripting |
Javascript |
Javascript |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Usability | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Section Editing |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
| Statistics | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
|
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Media and Files | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
|
| SVG Editing |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
|
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
|
| Media Search |
No |
Contents |
Contents |
Keywords |
Keywords |
| Extras | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Image Galleries |
No |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Forums |
No |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Blogs |
No |
|
Plugin |
|
|
| Ticket System |
No |
|
Plugin |
|
|
| Syntax Examples | PBwiki | Socialtext | TWiki | Wetpaint | Wikia |
| Internal Link |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[link] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WYSIWYG linking Wetpaint auto suggests internal pages to link. |
|
| External Link |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
http://www.example.com |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
WYSIWYG external linking |
|
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
^ Headline |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
WYSIWYG |
|
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
*bold* |
*bold* |
WYSIWYG |
|
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
_italics_ |
_italic_ |
WYSIWYG |
|
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
<u>underline</u> |
WYSIWYG |
|
| Monospace Format |
<code>monospace</code> |
.pre monospace .pre |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
|
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
|
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
|
| Images |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
http://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing |
|
| Aligning Text |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
WYSIWYG Left, Right, Center |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
> indented |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
WYSIWYG indentation |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* bullet item ** bulletted subitem |
|
WYSIWYG Bulleted Lists |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
# numbered item ## numbered subitem |
|
WYSIWYG Numbered Lists |
|
| Definition Lists |
<dl> </dl> |
Term > definition |
|
|
|
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
|
--- |
|
|
| Last updated | 2010-02-07 | 2009-07-15 | 2009-09-03 | 2008-10-28 | 2006-12-04 |
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