| General Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
v21.12.1
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1.45.3
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TWiki-6.1.0
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| Last Release Date |
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
|
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
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2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
|
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Dan Brown
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
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GPL
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GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
N/A
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
| System Requirements | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
19003 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Output | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
| Extras | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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