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Feature Comparison
| General Features | MediaWiki  | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.16.0 |
 TWiki 5.0.0 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Last Release Date |
2010-07-28 |
2009-05-29 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Wikispaces.com |
PBworks |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
www.wikispaces.com |
pbworks.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
Perl, JavaScript |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files, RCS |
does not apply | does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
free for public and protected (members-only) spaces; $5/mo. for private and ad-free spaces |
Determined by Solution Needs |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
interest groups, education, small companies, social groups, individuals |
Business Enterprises |
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | 2GB - Unlimited |
No limit |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | no limit set |
No limit |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply |  none |
None |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | per terms of service |
None |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
none |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Oracle |
|
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| SQLite |
Yes |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| RCS |
No |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other |
No |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
 Optional |
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 53 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
www.wikispaces.com |
|
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
n/a |
|
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
twiki.org |
www.wikispaces.com |
getsatisfaction.com |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
twiki.org |
n/a |
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| 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, Brazilian 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 |
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
8 languages Welsh, German, English, Spanish, Basque, French, Italian, Polish |
Not localized |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
Optional |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Links | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
All |
Optional |
All |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
Optional |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
yes: javascript |
Javascript |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Output | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
Contents |
Filenames only |
Contents |
| Extras | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Ticket System |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wikispaces | PBwiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[pagename]] or [[pagename|alias]] or [[spacename:pagename]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[[http://somewhere.else]] [[http://somewhere.else|alias]] or http://somewhere.else |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 == === Headline 3 === |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
<code>monospace</code> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
|
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
[[image:image.jpg]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
via editor tool |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
> indent |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
* one * two ** sub-two * three |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
# one # two ## sub-two # three |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
|
<dl> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
---- |
--- |
| Last updated | 2010-07-28 | 2010-07-21 | 2010-06-17 | 2010-08-16 |
Indented block