| General Features | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.1.21
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0.61
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
|
| Author |
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
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GPLv2
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GPL
|
| Programming Language |
HTML, JavaScript
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Individuals, private, small groups
|
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
|
any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Zope
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
A common browser
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
ZODB (zope object database)
|
No
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
optional extensions available
|
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Development/Support | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#zwiki on freenode
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
8695 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
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 |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
DTML
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Output | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | TiddlyWiki | Zwiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
Bare urls plus markup-specific link syntax. This and all following syntax examples depend on which markup mode is used for a page, including: restructured text, structured text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, html, plaintext.. |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
''bold'' |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{{monospaced}}} |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~~subscript~~ |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| 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 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : description |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
|
---- |
| remove TiddlyWiki | remove Zwiki | remove MediaWiki |