giewiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wala Wiki

General Features giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Version
1.13.1
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
1.1.7
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-05 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
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
new BSD License
GPL
GPL
Public Domain
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
other
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
System Requirements giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, *BSD
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any that supports basic CGI.
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
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 giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
App Engine
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
diffs
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support giewiki 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 giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
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
No
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
No
Output giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
Headlines
!Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= headline =
Bold Format
''Bald''
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bolded'''
Italics Format
//Italy//
''italic''
_italic_
''italicized''
Underline Format
__Undertow__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
monospaced.
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
[[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
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
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