alphawiki vs. TightWiki

General Features alphawiki TightWiki
Version
v.20160608
2.39.3
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (10 years ago)
2026-10-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (10 years ago)
2026-10-06 (10 days ago)
Author
marty alain
NetworkDLS
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
C#
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Small to medium business and personal use.
System Requirements alphawiki TightWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Root Access
Yes
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
IIS / Kestrel / nginx
Other Requirements
.NET runtime
Datastorage alphawiki TightWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
None
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki TightWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Development/Support alphawiki TightWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features alphawiki TightWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki TightWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
48
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Moldavian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Optional
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Links alphawiki TightWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Syntax Features alphawiki TightWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
TightWiki proprietary
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability alphawiki TightWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Plugin
Statistics alphawiki TightWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Output alphawiki TightWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Media and Files alphawiki TightWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki TightWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples alphawiki TightWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[Home, Take me home]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[[https://Tightwiki.com, Go to TightWiki]]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
==Header
===Sub Header
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
**this is bold**
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
//this is Italic//
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__this is underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
{{Code(bash)
This is syntax highlighted monospace text.
}}
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
~~this is strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
^^^Large
^^^^Larger
^^^^^Even larger
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Would require a plugin.
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
##Image(download.jpg)
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
{{Blockquote(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}

-or-

{{Figure(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Ony inside bulleted or numbered lists, otherwise would require a plugin.
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
{{Bullets
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
{{Bullets(Ordered)
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Would require a plugin.
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
##HR
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