TWiki vs. mobiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WiGit

General Features TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2016-06-26
1.32.2
0.1
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2016-06-25 (7 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2008-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2016-06-26 (7 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-07-09 (14 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MIT
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
other
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Text centric websites and mobile use
End Users/Desktop, Education
Private users
System Requirements TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
any
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
PHP 5.4+
none
Git
Datastorage TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
Email notification
Yes
No
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
CamelCase
Yes
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
No
Output TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
No
Extras TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki mobiki MediaWiki WiGit
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Internal Link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[InternalLink]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
[http://example.org The title]
"External link":http://externallink.com
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Headline
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*Bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
''italic''
_Italics_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
n/a
<u>underlined</u>
+underlined+
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
n/a
<tt>monospace</tt>
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
[[Image:wiki.png]]
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
___
aligned text
___
<center>Centered</center>
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
n/a
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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