General Features | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
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Version |
0.56
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5.1.21
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TWiki-6.1.0
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2.3.33
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Last Release Date |
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
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2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
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Last Update here |
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
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2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
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Author |
Jaap Karssenberg
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Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
GPL
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BSD
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GPL
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GPL2+
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Programming Language |
Python
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HTML, JavaScript
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Perl, JavaScript
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PHP
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Data Storage |
Files, RCS
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Files
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Files, RCS
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Files
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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N/A
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0
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Intended Audience |
Private users, small teams
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Individuals, private, small groups
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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All
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System Requirements | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OSX
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Any
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Webserver |
None
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Not required (optional backends available)
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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Other Requirements |
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
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A common browser
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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none
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Datastorage | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Text Files |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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MySQL |
No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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No
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SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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RCS |
Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Other |
Text Files with index in SQLite
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Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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Security/Anti-Spam | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Page Permissions |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ACL |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
File permissions
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optional extensions available
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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Host Blocking |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Optional
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Mail Encryption |
No
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No
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Yes
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Optional
|
nofollow |
No
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Unknown
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Plugin
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Yes
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Blacklist |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Optional
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CAPTCHA |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Delayed Indexing |
No
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Unknown
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Plugin
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Optional
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Development/Support | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Code Repository | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
Support Forum | ||||
Chat Channel | ||||
Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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7039 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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Common Features | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Preview |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Minor Changes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Change Summary |
No
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Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Page History |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Special Features | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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Interface Languages |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Optional
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Comments |
No
|
Plugin
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Threaded
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Discussion Pages
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Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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None
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Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
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Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Links | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Syntax Features | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
HTML Tags |
None
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Optional
|
All
|
Plugin
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Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Tables |
none
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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Optional
|
Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Scripting |
None
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JavaScript
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TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
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MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
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Content Includes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Usability | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Statistics | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Recent Changes |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
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Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Output | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Abbreviations |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
XML export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Media and Files | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Extras | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Syntax Examples | Zim | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | PmWiki |
Internal Link |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
External Link |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
Headlines |
=== Heading === |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
Bold Format |
**bold** |
''bold'' |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
Italics Format |
//italic// |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
Monospace Format |
``monospace`` |
{{{monospaced}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
Strikethrough Format |
~~strike~~ |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
Superscript Format |
^{sup} |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
Subscript Format |
_{sub} |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
Images |
{{./image.png}} |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
Aligning Text |
not implemented |
using custom classes, e.g. {{right{ text }}} |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
Text Indentation |
indent with tabs |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
Bulleted Lists |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
not implemented |
; term : description |
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
Horizontal Rule |
not implemented |
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