PBwiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
N/A
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
N/A
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
PBworks
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
N/A
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
N/A
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Yes
No
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Other
N/A
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PBwiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Indented block
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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