Friki vs. SubWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Version
2.1.1
0.1-dev
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
no official
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Greg Stein
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
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
Academic Free License
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
1
English
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
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
None
None
Some
All
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
No
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Optional
Yes
Output Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
No
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras Friki SubWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki SubWiki 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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
N/A
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
monospace
{{monospaced}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
N/A
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:        indented
N/A
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
title:        description
N/A
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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