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| General Features | TWiki  | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 TWiki 4.3.2 |
1.15.0 |
3.1 |
0.11.5 |
| Last Release Date |
2009-09-02 |
2009-06-10 |
8 December 2009 |
02/17/2009 |
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Atlassian |
Edgewall Software |
| URL |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.atlassian.com |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
 No |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
Modified BSD license |
| Programming Language |
Perl |
PHP |
Java |
Python |
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS |
Database |
Database |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
0 |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Enterprise |
Software development teams |
| Hosting Features | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | 10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | 100GB/month |
does not apply |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply |  Optional |
does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply |
| System Requirements | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
Any with PHP support |
Tomcat, Resin, Weblogic, JBoss, Websphere |
Apache, Standalone (builtin) |
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
none |
Java 5 |
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL |
| Datastorage | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
|
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
No |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE |
0 |
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
Yes |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant) |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| nofollow |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 34 listed |
Yes, 47 listed |
Yes, 26 listed |
Yes, 4 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
twiki.org |
svn.wikimedia.org |
Source included with commercial license |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Issue Tracker |
twiki.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
jira.atlassian.com |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Mailing List |
twiki.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.atlassian.com |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Support Forum |
twiki.org |
mwusers.com |
forums.atlassian.com |
|
| IRC Channel |
twiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
trac.edgewall.org |
| Common Features | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| 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 Features | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
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 |
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 |
15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
141 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, Javanese, 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 |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Links | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Some |
Optional |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
Optional |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
yes, using Python |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Usability | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Toolbar |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Statistics | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Output | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
Contents |
No |
| Extras | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | MediaWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underline+ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospace}} |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
!attached-image.jpg! !Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail! !http://example.com/external-image.jpg! |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
{html}<div align="right">{html} |
|
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
|
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
|
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
|
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-09-03 | 2009-06-10 | 2009-12-09 | 2009-09-04 |
