| General Features | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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2.3.33
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TWiki-6.1.0
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
|
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Wikia, Inc.
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
| License |
N/A
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GPL2+
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
N/A
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
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| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
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| Development status |
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
All users
|
All
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| Hosting Features | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
none
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
| Datastorage | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
No
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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 |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikia | PmWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
|
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
|
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ 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 |
|
{+underlined+} |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
@@monospace@@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
: term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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| remove Wikia | remove PmWiki | remove TWiki | remove MediaWiki |