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Feature Comparison
| General Features | MediaWiki  | PmWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.15.0 |
 2.2.0 |
TWiki 4.3.1 |
| Last Release Date |
2009-06-10 |
2009-01-18 |
2009-04-29 |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL2 |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
All |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
| Other Requirements |
none |
none |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
|
No |
No |
| SQLite |
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
No |
Can provide custom data backends |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
 Optional |
Plugin |
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 37 listed |
Yes, 6 listed |
Yes, 30 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
twiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
twiki.org |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
www.pmichaud.com |
twiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
twiki.org |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | PmWiki | 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 | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
|
No |
| Interface Languages |
140 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, 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, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
27 languages Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese |
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Links | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Plugin |
All |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Scripting |
Optional |
Plugin |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Blogs |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
-> indented text |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-06-10 | 2009-01-22 | 2009-04-30 |
