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| General Features | ikiwiki  | MediaWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.67 |
1.15.2 |
TWiki 4.3.2 |
| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 |
2010-03-08 |
2009-09-02 |
| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
| URL |
ikiwiki.info |
www.mediawiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Perl |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS |
Database |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Anyone |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
| System Requirements | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
Any |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any, or none |
Any with PHP support |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
| Datastorage | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
|
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
|
No |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
| Security/Anti-Spam | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins |
Yes |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
 Plugin |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| nofollow |
No |
 Optional |
Plugin |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Development/Support | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes, 47 listed |
Yes, 34 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/trunk |
svn.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
ikiwiki.info ; ikiwiki.info |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
| Mailing List |
ikiwiki.info |
lists.wikimedia.org |
twiki.org |
| Support Forum |
ikiwiki.info |
mwusers.com |
twiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
ikiwiki.info |
www.mediawiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Common Features | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Interface Languages |
Not localized |
140 languages 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 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Structured Data |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| SisterWiki |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Features | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin |
Optional |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
| Content Includes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Output | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
Contents |
| Extras | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
|
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | ikiwiki | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[internal]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[link text](http://example.org) |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| 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 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** __bold__ |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`inline monospace` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
  |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
1. item 1 2. item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
; term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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| Last updated | 2008-10-28 | 2010-03-09 | 2009-09-03 |
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