Friki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. JSPWiki

General Features Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Version
2.1.1
5.1.21
2.3.13
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
all
System Requirements Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Any
Anything supported by Perl
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
A common browser
Writable data directory
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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88 ⭐
112 ⭐
Common Features Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
None
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Statistics Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
File Attachments
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold''
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
monospace
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:        indented
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
title:        description
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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