PBwiki vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Version
N/A
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
Last Release Date
N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
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
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
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 PhpWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Other
N/A
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
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 TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link 
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link 
[http://www.externallink.com]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
[http://example.org The title]
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

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
*bold*

*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
'''bold'''
Italics Format 
''italics''
 
_italic_
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
''italic''
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format 
<code>monospace</code>
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format 
-strikethrough-
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
 
[ 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

[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text 
<left>, <center>, <right>
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation 
Indented block
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

: indented line
Bulleted Lists 
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* list
or
- list
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# Number #1
# Number #2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
# list
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists 
<dl>
</dl>
 
$ Term: Definition
 
Term:<def>
def
 
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule 
---
 
---
 
----
 
----
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