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

General Features MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Version
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
System Requirements MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

::centered text::
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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