MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Drupal Wiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.32.2
5.1.21
8.26
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-05-31 (11 months ago)
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-06-05 (11 months ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://kontextwork.de
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Commercial
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Different licences
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Hosting Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, nginx
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
None
Datastorage MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Optional
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
optional extensions available
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
2
German, English
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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
Widgets
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
((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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
===underline===
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
::centered text::
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: description
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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