| General Features | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5.9
|
2.11.0
|
5.1.21
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-04-05 (11 days ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-04-05 (11 days ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL2+
|
Apache License 2.0
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database, Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
All
|
all
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
| System Requirements | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
A common browser
|
| Datastorage | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
optional extensions available
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
113 ⭐
|
8581 ⭐
|
| Common Features | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Statistics | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
{{monospace}} |
{{{monospaced}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
~~subscript~~ |
| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
;term:definition |
; term : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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