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Feature Comparison
| General Features | JSPWiki  | TWiki | UseMod | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.8.3 |
TWiki 5.1.1 |
1.0 |
1.17.0 |
| Last Release Date |
2009-11-13 |
2012-01-17 |
September 12, 2003 |
2011-06-22 |
| Author |
Apache Software Foundation |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Clifford Adams |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
| URL |
www.jspwiki.org |
twiki.org |
www.usemod.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Apache License |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
Perl, JavaScript |
Perl |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files, DB, RCS |
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 1.5+ |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
Linux, Windows, MacOS X |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
any servlet 2.4+ compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
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 |
 Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| SQLite |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| BerkeleyDB |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Other |
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 |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
|
Yes |
| Host Blocking |
 Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Plugin |
 Patch |
Optional |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Plugin |
Patch |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | JSPWiki | TWiki | UseMod | MediaWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 1 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.apache.org |
twiki.org |
|
svn.wikimedia.org |
| Issue Tracker |
issues.apache.org |
twiki.org |
|
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
| Mailing List |
www.jspwiki.org |
twiki.org |
|
lists.wikimedia.org |
| Support Forum |
please use mailing lists or issue tracker |
twiki.org |
|
mwusers.com |
| IRC Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki |
twiki.org |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
| 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 |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Special Features | JSPWiki | TWiki | UseMod | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
No |
|
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
10 languages Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
|
140 languages 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 |
|
Optional |
| Comments |
Flat |
Threaded |
No |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Patch |
Optional |
|
Plugin |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| Links | JSPWiki | TWiki | UseMod | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
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 |
|
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 |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
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 |
|
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| Usability | JSPWiki | TWiki | UseMod | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Plugin |
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 |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 3 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
No |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
Plugin |
|
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 |
Plugin |
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 |
| Media and Files | JSPWiki | TWiki | UseMod | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
No |
Plugin |
|
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
Plugin |
|
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Contents |
No |
Keywords |
| Extras | JSPWiki | TWiki | UseMod | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
| Forums |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
No |
| Ticket System |
No |
Plugin |
|
No |
| 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> |
|
<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 |
|
<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 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
;term:definition |
|
;Term:Definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| Last updated | 2009-11-19 | 2012-04-25 | 2009-07-01 | 2011-06-22 |
