TWiki vs. Wala Wiki

General Features TWiki Wala Wiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.1.7
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-06 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Public Domain
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
System Requirements TWiki Wala Wiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, *BSD
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any that supports basic CGI.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage TWiki Wala Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
diffs
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Wala Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Development/Support TWiki Wala Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki Wala Wiki
Preview
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features TWiki Wala Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Links TWiki Wala Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki Wala Wiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability TWiki Wala Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki Wala Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output TWiki Wala Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Wala Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras TWiki Wala Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Wala Wiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= headline =
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bolded'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italicized''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
monospaced.
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:Block-quoted text.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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