| General Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
|
5.1.21
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
1.45.3
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
|
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
|
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
|
| Author |
Tiki Software Community Association
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
LGPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
HTML, JavaScript
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Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
|
Any
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Works on standard shared hosting
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
A common browser
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
| Datastorage | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
No
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
|
optional extensions available
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
8629 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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 |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
JavaScript
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
__bold__ |
''bold'' |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
===underline=== |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
-+monospace+- |
{{{monospaced}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strike-- |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
::centered text:: |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
leading spaces, if activated. |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* 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 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
;term:definition |
; term : description |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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