MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. WikyBlog

General Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Version
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
0.4.2
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL V3
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private, small and big team
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
MySQL
Datastorage MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Usability MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Output MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TWiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
*Bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
=Italic=
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
_Underline_
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
[|Monospace formate|]
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-Strike-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[$Image file$]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#list1
##list2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
___
----
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