| General Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.1.21
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18.7.0
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2.7.4
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
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2026-08-31 (9 days ago)
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2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
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2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
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2026-08-31 (9 days ago)
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2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
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2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
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| Author |
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
BSD
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL2+
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
HTML, JavaScript
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Java
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database, RCS
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Files
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Individuals, private, small groups
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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All
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| Hosting Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Not required (optional backends available)
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Servlet 5.0+
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
A common browser
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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none
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none
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| Datastorage | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Optional
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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| MySQL |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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No
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| Other |
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
optional extensions available
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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Yes
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| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Plugin
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| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
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Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
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| Development/Support | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
8642 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
38
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 |
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 |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details. The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax). [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
''bold'' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{{monospaced}}} |
##monospace## |
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
--Strike-- |
{-strikethrough-} |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~~subscript~~ |
,,subscript,, |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : description |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove TiddlyWiki | remove XWiki | remove PmWiki | remove MediaWiki |