bLADE Wiki vs. ikiwiki vs. TWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Version
3.4.9
2.67
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2008-11-09 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C#
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Anyone
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any, or none
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Extras bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki ikiwiki TWiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[internal]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
+Heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold text*
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
=italic text=
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italic_
Underline Format
_underlined text_
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$image.jpg$]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
___
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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