ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. PhpWiki

General Features ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Version
2.67
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (26 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Any
System Requirements ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
None
various opt. helpers
Datastorage ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
No
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>below</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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
* list
or
- list
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
# list
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
---
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