| General Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
|
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
2.1.8
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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LGPL
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
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Perl, JavaScript
|
Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
N/A
|
$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.
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Works on standard shared hosting
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
None
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
No
|
MariaDB
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| # 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
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N/A
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N/A
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97 ⭐
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
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 | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| 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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | Foswiki |
| 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 autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| 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 6 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
*bold* |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| 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 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
$ Term: Definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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