PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.5.9
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2026-04-05 (13 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-04-05 (13 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
none
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8583 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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