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Feature Comparison
| General Features | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware  | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
3.1 |
1.15.0 |
 2009-02-14b |
TWiki 4.3.1 |
| Last Release Date |
2009-06-27 |
2009-06-10 |
2009-02-14 |
2009-04-29 |
| Author |
the TikiWiki Community |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Andreas Gohr |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
| URL |
tikiwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.dokuwiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
LGPL |
GPL |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Files |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
| 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 |
private, small to medium companies |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
| System Requirements | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
| Other Requirements |
None |
none |
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
| Datastorage | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
Yes |
|
No |
No |
| SQLite |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
DB abstraction with ADOdb |
No |
None |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
| Security/Anti-Spam | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| 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 |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
 Plugin |
Plugin |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Plugin |
 Optional |
Yes |
| nofollow |
No |
Optional |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Blacklist |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Development/Support | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 15 listed |
Yes, 37 listed |
Yes, 20 listed |
Yes, 30 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
svn.wikimedia.org |
dev.splitbrain.org |
twiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
dev.tikiwiki.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
twiki.org |
| Mailing List |
sourceforge.net |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.freelists.org |
twiki.org |
| Support Forum |
tikiwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
irc://irc.freenode.net/#tikiwiki |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.dokuwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Common Features | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| 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 | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Interface Languages |
33 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, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, 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, 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 |
46 languages Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Plugin |
 Patch |
Optional |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Syntax Features | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Optional |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
Optional |
Optional, PHP |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Patch |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| 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 |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
__bold__ |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
=== underline === |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
-+ monospace +- |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-- strike -- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
:: centered text :: |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
leading spaces, if activated. |
: indented line |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
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| Definition Lists |
;term:definition |
; term : definition |
|
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| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-06-30 | 2009-06-10 | 2009-05-27 | 2009-04-30 |
