ButorWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Version
2.2.1
5.1.21
2.5.5
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (18 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (16 days ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (16 days ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
BSD
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Individuals, private, small groups
All
System Requirements ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
A common browser
none
Datastorage ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
optional extensions available
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8524 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Internal Macros
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Output ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ButorWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
'_subscript_'
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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