Instiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit

General Features Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Version
0.30.0
1.0.1
TWiki-6.1.0
0.72
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2026-04-24 (today)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Clay Alberty
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Dominic Hargreaves
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
BSD
GPL
GPL/Artistic
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
C#
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Wiki Developers
System Requirements Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything that runs Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
IIS 5+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Text Files
No
Unknown
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Plugin Interface
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
506 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
No
Special Features Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Usability Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Output Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki ProntoWiki TWiki Wiki-Toolkit
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[pagename]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
{title|url}
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
!, !!, !!!
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italics''
_italic_
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__under__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospace`
=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</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
%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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
#
##
###
####
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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