TWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. EditMe vs. ButorWiki

General Features TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
N/A
2.2.1
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
N/A
2007-03-08 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (25 days ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2007-07-30 (16 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
EditMe, LLC
Aiman Sawan
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
N/A
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
From $4.95/mo
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
SMB
Hosting Features TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
N/A
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Works on standard shared hosting
N/A
Any webserver
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
N/A
Tomcat 4.1 +
Datastorage TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
RCS
Yes
No
N/A
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
N/A
None
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
N/A
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript
Internal Macros
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Usability TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Output TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware EditMe ButorWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
<a href="..."></a>
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
<a href="..."></a>
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Use WYSIWYG editor
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
<b>Bold</b>
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
<i>Italics</i>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>Underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Use WYSIWYG editor
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
---
Use WYSIWYG editor
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