SubWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki

General Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Version
0.1-dev
5.1.21
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
no official
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8486 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
None
JavaScript
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples SubWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
N/A
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
N/A
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
N/A
; term
: description
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
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