GWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. Zim

General Features GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Version
2.4.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.4
TWiki-6.1.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Any
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private users, small teams
System Requirements GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
None
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
various opt. helpers
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Links GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
All
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TWiki Zim
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[http://example.com]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
not implemented
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
not implemented
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