ConnectedText vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Version
5.0.0.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-02-19 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Eduardo Mauro
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
39,95
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
No need
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
none
Datastorage ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Firebird
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
No need
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Yes
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ConnectedText DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[wiki page]]
[[wiki page|Title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]]
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Head1 =
== Head 2 ==
=== Head 3 ====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__Underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{Monospace}}}
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^Superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvSubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
~~Centered text~~
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: First level of indenting
:: Second level
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* First item
* Seconditem
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. First item
1. Second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
; term
: description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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