TWiki vs. UseMod vs. MediaWiki

General Features TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clifford Adams
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki UseMod 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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
Output TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://url.com/pic.gif
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;Term:Definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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