PBwiki vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2.5.6
Last Release Date
N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days 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)
2026-02-08 (19 days 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.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Hosting Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
none
none
Datastorage PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Development/Support PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
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
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Links PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
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>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
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]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Indented block
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
----
----
----
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