Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
5.1.21
18.6.0
TWiki-6.1.0
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2026-07-27 (29 days 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)
2026-07-28 (28 days ago)
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
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
Yes
License
LGPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 5.0+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
A common browser
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
optional extensions available
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8629 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki XWiki 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]]
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)
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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
__bold__
''bold''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//Italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
===underline===
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
::centered text::
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
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
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
---
----
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