SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
5.2
2.3.33
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
3.2
Last Release Date
2017-08-04 (6 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-20 (14 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (5 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-21 (13 days ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Hallo Welt! GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
per server
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL2+
LGPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
.NET - C#
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
None
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
MS SQL Server
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
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
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
javascript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Java Script
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[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://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''Bold text'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''Italicized text''
_italics_
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined text</u>
+underline+
{+underlined+}
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text=
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
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
<div align="right">
%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
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* 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
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# 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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