TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Confluence

General Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.2
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
various opt. helpers
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, 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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Links TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
~subscript~
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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