MediaWiki vs. SubWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.32.2
0.1-dev
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
no official
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Greg Stein
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Academic Free License
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Alpha
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
None
Datastorage MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
1
English
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
No
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
None
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
N/A
===underline===
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospaced}}
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
::centered text::
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
N/A
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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