PBwiki vs. EditMe vs. TWiki

General Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Version
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TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
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N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
PBworks
EditMe, LLC
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
License
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N/A
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
From $4.95/mo
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Development status
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N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
Yes
MySQL
N/A
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
Yes
Other
N/A
N/A
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support PBwiki EditMe TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki EditMe TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki EditMe TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki EditMe TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki EditMe TWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Use WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
Use WYSIWYG editor
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
Use WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Use WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Indented block
Use WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Use WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Use WYSIWYG editor
---
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