giewiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET

General Features giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Version
1.13.1
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
1.1.7
0.4.2
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)
2009-12-31 (16 years 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)
2010-04-07 (15 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
Pier-Luc Duchaine
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
GPL
GPL
Public Domain
GPL V3
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Data Storage
other
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Pre-Alpha
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.
Private, small and big team
System Requirements giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, *BSD
Windows
Root Access
No
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 Wiki CSharp .NET
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
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 Wiki CSharp .NET
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Usability giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Statistics giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Output giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET
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]
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
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]
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
Headlines
!Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= headline =
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
Bold Format
''Bald''
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bolded'''
*Bold*
Italics Format
//Italy//
''italic''
_italic_
''italicized''
=Italic=
Underline Format
__Undertow__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
_Underline_
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
monospaced.
[|Monospace formate|]
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-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.
[$Image file$]
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
-list1
--list2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
#list1
##list2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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