JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. UseMod vs. MediaWiki

General Features JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Version
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clifford Adams
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Optional
Output JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki TWiki UseMod MediaWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://url.com/pic.gif
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
;Term:Definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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