TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Version
5.1.21
1.32.2
2.67
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
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
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8524 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Output TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
! 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__
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[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
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* 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
# 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
; term
: description
; term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove TiddlyWiki remove MediaWiki remove ikiwiki