MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.32.2
2.3.32
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (24 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (23 days ago)
2024-04-01 (15 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
none
None
Datastorage MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
===underline===
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
Text Indentation
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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