| General Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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TWiki-6.1.0
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.11.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
|
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
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2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
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2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
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2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Andreas Gohr
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Apache Software Foundation
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL
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GPL 2
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Apache License 2.0
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
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Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database, Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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N/A
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
all
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
None
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
4730 ⭐
|
117 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Optional, PHP
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | JSPWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[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 6 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
__bold__ |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underlined__ |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
''monospace'' |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Plugin |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
N/A |
%%(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 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
Plugin |
;term:definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove TWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove JSPWiki |