| General Features | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
TWiki-6.1.0
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2.3.33
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2024-04-20 (20 days ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2024-04-21 (19 days ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL2+
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
N/A
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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All
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
none
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| Datastorage | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Yes
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| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, 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 |
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 |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | PmWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
---- |
| remove TWiki | remove PmWiki | remove MediaWiki |