| General Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
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5.2
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TWiki-6.1.0
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2.5.299
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| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Atlassian
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Nicolas Giard
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPL
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AGPL-v3
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
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Perl, JavaScript
|
Javascript
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Everyone
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
All
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
All
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Node.js
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Other |
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
19117 ⭐
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
JS, CSS
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Confluence | TWiki | Wiki.js |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
*bold* |
**Bold Text** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
_italic_ |
*Italic Text* |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underline+ |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospace}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`Monospace Code` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^Superscript Text^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~Subscript Text~ |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
 |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove Confluence | remove TWiki | remove Wiki.js |