| General Features | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.30.0
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1.0.1
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2.0.045
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TWiki-6.1.0
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| Last Release Date |
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
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2026-04-04 (today)
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2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
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2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
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2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
|
| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Clay Alberty
|
Helmut Leitner
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Ruby's
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BSD
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
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C#
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Perl
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Perl, JavaScript
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database
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Files
|
Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Free
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0
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N/A
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
general, education
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individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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| System Requirements | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
Windows
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Unix / Linux
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
IIS 5+
|
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
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.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
none
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| Oracle |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
.NET Membership platform
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
506 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
1
English |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
None
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | ProntoWiki | ProWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[pagename] |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
{title|url} |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
!, !!, !!! |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
__under__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
<sup>text</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
<sub>text</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
available through custom tags |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
multiple spaces -> |
: indented line :: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
|
; term: definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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