JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
5.1.21
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 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.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
A common browser
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
optional extensions available
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
111 ⭐
N/A
8501 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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 JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
No
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | 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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[ 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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<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
* list
or
- list
* 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
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
; term
: description
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
----
----
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