TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Friki

General Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Version
5.1.21
1.32.2
2.5.6
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-02-08 (9 days ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-02-08 (9 days ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL2+
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
private users and small teams
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any that can run or call Java
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
none
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8548 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
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
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Output TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Friki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
monospace
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:        indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* first
* second
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. first
1. second
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
: term : definition
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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