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Feature Comparison
| General Features | TWiki  | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 TWiki 4.3.2 |
2.0.0.199 |
1.15.0 |
| Last Release Date |
2009-09-02 |
14/2/2008 |
2009-06-10 |
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Microsoft |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
www.flexwiki.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
Common Public License (CPL) |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Perl |
C# |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS |
Files, DB |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
Free |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
|
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| System Requirements | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 or 2008, LINUX |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
 No |
Yes |
No |
| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
IIS (ASP.NET), APACHE (MONO) |
Any with PHP support |
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
None |
none |
| Datastorage | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
|
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
SQL Server 2000, 2005 or Express |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
Windows, Forms (ASPNET Providers) |
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| nofollow |
Plugin |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Blacklist |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 34 listed |
No |
Yes, 47 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
twiki.org |
flexwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
twiki.org |
sourceforge.net |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
twiki.org |
lists.sourceforge.net |
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
twiki.org |
|
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
twiki.org |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
No |
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 | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
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 |
Not localized |
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 |
Optional |
| Comments |
Threaded |
No |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Optional |
|
Plugin |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| Links | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Plugin |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
yes; WikiTallk |
Optional |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Output | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print View |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
No |
Keywords |
| Extras | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | FlexWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
HomePage |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
"WikiMatrix":http:://www.wikimatrix.org |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!Heading 1 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* or '''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italics here'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
+underline text+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
-strikethrough text- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^super^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~sub~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
http://whatever/path/file.jpg http://whatever/path/file.gif etc. |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Use a span or div witha class and custom css |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Use a span or div witha class and custom css |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-09-03 | 2008-02-19 | 2009-06-10 |
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