| General Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
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TWiki-6.1.0
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5.2
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| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
N/A
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
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| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| 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 | TWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | TWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
|
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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