Wiki CSharp .NET vs. TWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. WikiCrowd vs. PmWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Version
0.4.2
TWiki-6.1.0
1.5.11c
0.0.16
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2009-12-30 (14 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
29 Nov, 2010
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2010-11-29 (13 years ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Ryan Norton
Stas Davydov
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Perl, JavaScript
C++
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
NA
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End users/Desktop
Personal, Corporate, Community
All
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
built-in
Apache
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
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
unknown
No
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
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
2
English, Russian
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
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
no
Plugin, JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET TWiki wxWikiServer WikiCrowd PmWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold*
*bold*
''' bold text '''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=Italic=
_italic_
'' italic text ''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
_Underline_
<u>underline</u>
No
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
start line with blank space.
No
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
No
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_subscript_
'_subscript_'
Images
[$Image file$]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
@img url
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
] centred text
No
%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>
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
No
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
* two.1
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
No
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
No
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
___
---
No
----
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