WikkaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki

General Features WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Version
1.4.2
2.3.33
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (3 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (2 days ago)
2024-04-01 (22 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
None
none
Datastorage WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
140
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
Patch
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((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]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
: term : definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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