WikkaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki

General Features WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Version
1.4.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
none
Datastorage WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, 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
Patch
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Chat
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
;term:definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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