MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Version
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everyone
System Requirements MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
All
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Node.js
Datastorage MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Optional
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Links MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Optional
Output MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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---
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