ikiwiki vs. TightWiki

General Features ikiwiki TightWiki
Version
2.67
2.39.3
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-10-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-10-06 (10 days ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
NetworkDLS
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Perl
C#
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Small to medium business and personal use.
System Requirements ikiwiki TightWiki
Operating System
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
IIS / Kestrel / nginx
Other Requirements
.NET runtime
Datastorage ikiwiki TightWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki TightWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
yes
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Development/Support ikiwiki TightWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features ikiwiki TightWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki TightWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
48
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Moldavian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Optional
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Links ikiwiki TightWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features ikiwiki TightWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
TightWiki proprietary
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki TightWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Statistics ikiwiki TightWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Output ikiwiki TightWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Media and Files ikiwiki TightWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki TightWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ikiwiki TightWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[Home, Take me home]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[[https://Tightwiki.com, Go to TightWiki]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Header
===Sub Header
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**this is bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//this is Italic//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__this is underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{Code(bash)
This is syntax highlighted monospace text.
}}
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
~~this is strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^^Large
^^^^Larger
^^^^^Even larger
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Would require a plugin.
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
##Image(download.jpg)
Aligning Text
{{Blockquote(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}

-or-

{{Figure(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
Text Indentation
Ony inside bulleted or numbered lists, otherwise would require a plugin.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
{{Bullets
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
{{Bullets(Ordered)
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Would require a plugin.
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
##HR
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