Git-Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Version
1.0
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (17 days ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (16 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
System Requirements Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Operating System
*nix
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Git
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{Image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
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