Wicked vs. MediaWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Version
2.0.8
1.32.2
1.4.2
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Wikka Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any (platform-independent)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
None
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
Yes
Active Directory (patch)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Features Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
No
Optional
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Statistics Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked MediaWiki WikkaWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospaced##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
++Strike through text++
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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