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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware  | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
8.3 |
1.17.0 |
phpwiki-1.3.14 |
 3.5.1, 4.0 |
| Last Release Date |
2012-1-17 |
2011-06-22 |
2007-07-01 |
2012-04-29 |
| Author |
Tiki Software Community Association |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau |
XWiki Development Team |
| URL |
tiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
phpwiki.sourceforge.net |
www.xwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
LGPL |
GPL |
GPL |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Java |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Files, DB, RCS |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Any |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers |
| System Requirements | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Any platform supporting JDK 1.6 or greater |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Works on standard shared hosting |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support |
Servlet 2.4+ |
| Other Requirements |
None |
none |
various opt. helpers |
Java 1.6, MySQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required) |
| Datastorage | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Other |
|
No |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) |
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
Yes |
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver |
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
No |
| nofollow |
 Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Blacklist |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Development/Support | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 50 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 9 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
svn.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
github.com |
| Issue Tracker |
dev.tiki.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
jira.xwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
sourceforge.net |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sf.net |
dev.xwiki.org |
| Support Forum |
tiki.org |
mwusers.com |
sf.net |
Through the mailing list/JIRA/IRC/Nabble |
| IRC Channel |
irc://irc.freenode.org/tikiwiki |
www.mediawiki.org |
#phpwiki |
irc.freenode.net (channel: #xwiki) |
| Common Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
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 Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Interface Languages |
34 languages 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, 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 |
9 languages German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
26 languages Catalan, Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
 Patch |
Yes |
| Links | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Some |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Scripting |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
Optional |
plugins, templates, PHP |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Optional |
Plugin |
Patch |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media and Files | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Forums |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
| External Link |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
__bold__ |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
===underline=== |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
-+monospace+- |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] |
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
| Aligning Text |
::centered text:: |
<center>Centered</center> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
leading spaces, if activated. |
: indented line |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# list |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
;term:definition |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
---- |
---- |
| Last updated | 2012-04-16 | 2011-06-22 | 2009-04-03 | 2012-05-02 |
