giewiki vs. Hatta vs. Foswiki vs. Instiki vs. GWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.13.1
1.6.6
2.1.8
0.30.0
2.4.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2011-07-20 (12 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (12 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Radomir Dopieralski
Foswiki Community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Roger Rene Kommer
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
GPL v2
GPL
Ruby's
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Python
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
other
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
general, education
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
All Java Servlet Container, included
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Java 1.8+
A common browser
Datastorage giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
App Engine
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
caching of content into database using plugins
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Google Datastore
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Development/Support giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
2
German, English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://example.com]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
!Headline
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
''Bald''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*Bold Format*
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italy//
//italic//
_italic_
_italic_, *italic*
_Italic format_
//italic//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
n/a
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
+Unterlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospace`
{{Monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
~~subscript~~
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
n/a
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
n/a
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
n/a
$ Term: Definition
term
: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
----
----
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