MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.32.2
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8509 ⭐
N/A
112 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
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