| General Features | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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1.32.2
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TWiki-6.1.0
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1.1.7
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| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-05 (1 month ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
|
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
GPL
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GPL
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Public Domain
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| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
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PHP
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Perl, JavaScript
|
Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
|
N/A
|
Free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux, *BSD
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Any with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Any that supports basic CGI.
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
diffs
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
To current
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Not available
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
None
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
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| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
| External Link |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
| Headlines |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= headline = |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
'''bolded''' |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
''italicized'' |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
monospaced. |
| 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 |
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
:Block-quoted text. |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# One # Two # Three |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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