MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WiGit

General Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Version
1.32.2
5.1.21
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.1
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
other
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Private users
System Requirements MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
None
Git
Datastorage MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Text Files
No
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
optional extensions available
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8577 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[InternalLink]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
"External link":http://externallink.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
h1. Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
__bold__
*Bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
_Italics_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
+underlined+
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
-+monospace+-
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~subscript~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
::centered text::
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
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
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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