TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. PmWiki

General Features TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
6.1.25
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2024-04-20 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2024-04-01 (28 days ago)
2024-04-21 (8 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Tiki Software Community Association
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
LGPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
All
System Requirements TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
none
Datastorage TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
MariaDB
MariaDB
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
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
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
actions (PHP)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Plugin
Media and Files TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Examples TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strike--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
{SUB()}text{SUB}
'_subscript_'
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
::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
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
one
two
leading spaces, if activated.
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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