WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Version does not applyTWiki 5.1.1 4.0 1.17.0
Last Release Date does not apply2012-01-17 19th September, 2011 2011-06-22
Author Socialtext Peter Thoeny, TWiki community Atlassian Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL www.socialtext.com twiki.org www.atlassian.com www.mediawiki.org
Free and Open Source does not apply Yes No Yes
License does not applyGPL Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use GPL
Programming Language does not applyPerl, JavaScript Java PHP
Data Storage does not applyFiles, RCS Database Database
License Cost/ Fee www.socialtext.com N/A starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) 0
Development status does not applyMature Mature Mature
Intended Audience Businesses Large enterprise; small to medium businesses Enterprise + Technical Teams End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting FeaturesSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Storage Quota 2 x 146GB does not apply10 to 100GB+ does not apply
Bandwidth Quota Unlimited does not apply100GB/month does not apply
Other Limits Unlimited wiki workspaces & pages does not apply No does not apply
Topic Restrictions None does not apply No does not apply
Corporate Branding Yes does not apply Yes does not apply
Own Domain Yes does not apply Optional does not apply
Ads allowed No does not apply Yes does not apply
System RequirementsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Operating System does not applyLinux, Windows, OS-X and other Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants *nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access does not apply No No No
Webserver does not applyAlmost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 Apache Tomcat Any with PHP support
Other Requirements does not applyRCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+ none
DatastorageSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Text Files does not apply Yes No No
MySQL does not apply No Yes Yes
PostgreSQL does not apply No Yes Yes
Oracle does not apply No Yes Yes
SQLite does not apply No No Yes
BerkeleyDB does not apply No No No
RCS does not apply Yes No No
Other does not applyRcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server No
Security/Anti-SpamSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes No
Authentication Backends does not applyInternal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more Yes
Host Blocking Yes Plugin No Yes
Mail Encryption Optional Yes Optional Plugin
nofollow Optional Plugin Optional Optional
Blacklist Yes Plugin No Yes
CAPTCHA Optional Plugin Yes Plugin
Delayed Indexing Optional Plugin No No
Development/SupportSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 5 listed Yes, 33 listed Yes, 34 listed Yes, 63 listed
Preconfigured Hosting does not apply Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository does not applytwiki.org Source included with commercial license svn.wikimedia.org
Issue Tracker www.socialtext.net twiki.org jira.atlassian.com bugzilla.wikimedia.org
Mailing List www.socialtext.net twiki.org www.atlassian.com lists.wikimedia.org
Support Forum www.socialtext.net twiki.org answers.atlassian.com mwusers.com
IRC Channel #socialtext twiki.org Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com www.mediawiki.org
Common FeaturesSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Optional Yes Yes 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 Yes Yes
Special FeaturesSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Optional No No Yes
Interface Languages   19 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15 languages
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification Yes Yes Yes Optional
Comments Flat Threaded Threaded Discussion Pages
Categories Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirection Optional Yes Plugin Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Detection Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming does not apply Optional Yes Plugin
Structured Data Yes Yes Plugin Plugin
LinksSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
CamelCase Optional Yes Yes No
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Plugin Optional Yes
SisterWiki Optional Plugin No No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes Plugin Yes No
Page Redirects Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
Syntax FeaturesSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
HTML Tags All All Optional Some
Math formulas Optional Plugin Plugin Yes
Tables simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support Optional No No No
Markdown Support Optional No No No
Textile Support Optional Plugin Yes No
BBCode Support Optional No No No
Emoticon Images Optional Yes Yes Optional
Syntax Highlighting Optional Plugin Yes Plugin
Footnotes Optional Plugin Plugin Yes
Quoting Yes Yes Yes No
Internal Comments Optional Yes Plugin Yes
Custom styles Optional Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags Optional Yes Yes No
Scripting Javascript TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more Optional
Content Includes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Yes Yes Plugin
UsabilitySocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Section Editing Optional Plugin No Yes
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit Yes Plugin No Optional
Toolbar Yes Plugin Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes No Yes
StatisticsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Yes No Yes Yes
Orphaned Pages Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Most/Least Popular Yes Yes Yes Yes
Recent Visitors Yes Plugin No Plugin
Analysis Optional Yes Yes Optional
OutputSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
HTML HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print View Print View Print CSS Print CSS
Mobile Friendly Yes Plugin Plugin No
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
Abbreviations Yes Plugin No No
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Yes Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
XML export Yes Plugin Yes Yes
PDF Export Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Media and FilesSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Revisions Yes Yes Yes Yes
Embedded Flash Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Embedded Video Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Image Editing Optional Plugin Plugin No
SVG Editing Optional Plugin Plugin No
MindMap Editing Optional Plugin Plugin Plugin
Media Search Contents Contents Contents Keywords
ExtrasSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Galleries Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Forums Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Blogs Yes Plugin Yes No
Ticket System Yes Plugin Plugin No
Syntax ExamplesSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki Details
Internal Link
"example" {link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
"Example"<http://www.example.com/>
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
^ Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold*
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
_italic_
_italics_
''italic''
Underline Format
.html
<u>word</u>
.html
<u>underline</u>
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
.pre
monospace
.pre
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
.html
<sup>number here</sup>
.html
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
.html
<sub>number here</sub>
.html
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
!attached-image.jpg!
!Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail!
!http://example.com/external-image.jpg!
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
.html
<p style="text-align: center;">
text you wish to align here
</p>
.html
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
> indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* bullet item
** bulletted subitem
   * Item 1
      * Item 1.1
   * Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered item
## numbered subitem
   1. Item 1
      a. Item 1.a
   1. Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term
> definition
   $ Term: Definition
 
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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Last updated2010-11-152012-04-252011-09-192011-06-22