| General Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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TWiki-6.1.0
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1.0.1
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0.30.0
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| Last Release Date |
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2024-05-17 (1 day ago)
|
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
|
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Clay Alberty
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
Ruby's
|
| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
C#
|
Ruby on Rails
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
N/A
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
general, education
|
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Windows
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
IIS 5+
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
.NET Membership platform
|
||
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
478 ⭐
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
||
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
No
|
No
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
||
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
None
|
||
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
||
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
||
| Extras | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | Instiki |
| Internal Link |
|
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[pagename] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
| External Link |
|
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
{title|url} |
[another site](http://example.com) |
| Headlines |
|
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!, !!, !!! |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
| Bold Format |
|
*bold* |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
_italic_ |
''italics'' |
_italic_, *italic* |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underline</u> |
__under__ |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
| Monospace Format |
|
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
available through custom tags |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
| Text Indentation |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
multiple spaces -> |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
$ Term: Definition |
|
term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
--- |
|
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