ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Wikepage

General Features ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Version
2.67
1.32.2
5.1.21
2008.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2008-10-13 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2008-10-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Jose Carlos Medeiros
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Private users, small groups
System Requirements ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Platform Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Server Independent
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
n/a
Datastorage ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
# 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
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Output ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
No
Extras ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Wikepage
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
''bold''
**Bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//italic//
''Italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__Underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
With a space in front of the text
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
n/a
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
n/a
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
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