MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.45.3
18.6.0
5.1.21
2.7.4
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
2026-07-27 (30 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2026-07-31 (26 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
2026-07-28 (29 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-07-31 (26 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
All
all
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8629 ⭐
N/A
117 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
; term
: description
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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