| General Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
|
5.1.21
|
2.67
|
2.1.1
|
1.32.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Frank Carver
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT/X
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
ASL or LGPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Lua
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
Perl
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small teams or private users
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Anyone
|
private users and small teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Any
|
Any
|
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Any, or none
|
Any that can run or call Java
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
A common browser
|
Java 1.3 or later
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Git
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
No
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
optional extensions available
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
Yes
|
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
8557 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
1
English |
0
|
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
None
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
JavaScript
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
Optional
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Output | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | Friki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Sputnik]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[internal]] |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
''bold'' |
**bold** __bold__ |
'''bold'' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//italic// |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{{monospaced}}} |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
monospace |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--strikethrough-- |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
~~subscript~~ |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
  |
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
|
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
|
: indented |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* first * second |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. first 1. second |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : description |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
title: description |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
|
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| remove Sputnik | remove TiddlyWiki | remove ikiwiki | remove Friki | remove MediaWiki |