| General Features | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.3.33
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26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2024-04-20 (13 days ago)
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2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2024-04-21 (12 days ago)
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2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Tiki Software Community Association
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL2+
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LGPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
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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| Intended Audience |
All
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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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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Works on standard shared hosting
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
none
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None
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none
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| Datastorage | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
|
No
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| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Plugin
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No
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No
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| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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MariaDB
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
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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SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
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Yes
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| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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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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| Common Features | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Interface Languages |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Some
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| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
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Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
Optional
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
===underline=== |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
-+monospace+- |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
--strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
::centered text:: |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
leading spaces, if activated. |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
;term:definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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