Git-Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.0
1.32.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
A common browser
Datastorage Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
Git
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
8586 ⭐
Common Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Output Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
{{Image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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