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

General Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Version
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
5.1.21
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
BSD
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Individuals, private, small groups
All
System Requirements MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
none
None
A common browser
none
Datastorage MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
optional extensions available
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
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[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.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
{{{monospaced}}}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~~subscript~~
'_subscript_'
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%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
leading spaces, if activated.
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* 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 1.1
# 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
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: description
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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