MediaWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.32.2
1.4.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Wikka Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any (platform-independent)
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Active Directory (patch)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Patch
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Statistics MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Patch
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Patch
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
Extras MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospaced##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
++Strike through text++
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
~~subscript~~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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