TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. WikiCrowd

General Features TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
1.4.2
0.0.16
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
29 Nov, 2010
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2010-11-29 (13 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Wikka Development Team
Stas Davydov
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Personal, Corporate, Community
System Requirements TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
any (platform-independent)
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
Datastorage TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Active Directory (patch)
No
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
2
English, Russian
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
No
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Syntax Features TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Plugin, JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Statistics TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
No
Extras TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki WikiCrowd
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
//italic//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
No
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospaced##
No
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
++Strike through text++
No
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
_subscript_
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
@img url
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
No
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
No
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
No
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
No
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
No
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