MoasdaWiki vs. Friki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Version
3.9.1
2.1.1
5.1.21
1.32.2
2.67
Last Release Date
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Frank Carver
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
ASL or LGPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
private users and small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
System Requirements MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Any that can run or call Java
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
Java 1.3 or later
A common browser
none
Datastorage MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
optional extensions available
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8524 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
None
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
Optional
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Output MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki Friki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold''
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
##italic##
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
monospace
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
:        indented
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
title:        description
; term
: description
; term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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