| General Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
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26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
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2.5.299
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2.3.33
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| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
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2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
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2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
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2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
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2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
Nicolas Giard
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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LGPL
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AGPL-v3
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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Javascript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
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Everyone
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All
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
|
All
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Works on standard shared hosting
|
All
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
None
|
Node.js
|
none
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
No
|
MariaDB
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Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| 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
|
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| # 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
|
19117 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 | Wiki.js | 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 |
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 |
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
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
JS, CSS
|
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
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | 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
|
No
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wiki.js | 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 |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
[[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] |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
**Bold Text** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
*Italic Text* |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
`Monospace Code` |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
^Superscript Text^ |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
~Subscript Text~ |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=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:: |
|
%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. |
|
-> 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 2 - Item 3 |
* 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 |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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