| General Features | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
|
2.39.3
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
|
2026-10-03 (13 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
|
2026-10-06 (10 days ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
NetworkDLS
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
MIT
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Small to medium business and personal use.
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
IIS / Kestrel / nginx
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
.NET runtime
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
47 ⭐
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
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 |
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Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Moldavian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Optional
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Unknown
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
TightWiki proprietary
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | TightWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[Home, Take me home]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[https://Tightwiki.com, Go to TightWiki]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
==Header ===Sub Header |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**this is bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//this is Italic// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__this is underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{Code(bash)
This is syntax highlighted monospace text.
}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
~~this is strikethrough~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^^Large ^^^^Larger ^^^^^Even larger |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Would require a plugin. |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
##Image(download.jpg) |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
{{Blockquote(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
-or-
{{Figure(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
Ony inside bulleted or numbered lists, otherwise would require a plugin. |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
{{Bullets
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}} |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
{{Bullets(Ordered)
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}} |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Would require a plugin. |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
##HR |
| remove MediaWiki | remove TightWiki |