JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
No
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Yes
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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