Wikidot vs. TWiki

General Features Wikidot TWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features Wikidot TWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wikidot TWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support Wikidot TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikidot TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Special Features Wikidot TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links Wikidot TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikidot TWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability Wikidot TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wikidot TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output Wikidot TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras Wikidot TWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot TWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic text//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined text__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[image src="..."]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
= Centered line
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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