PBwiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Version
N/A
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
PBworks
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
N/A
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki 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 TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Optional
No
Oracle
N/A
No
Optional
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Optional
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
N/A
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Output PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Indented block
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
;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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