PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Version
2.6.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
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
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
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
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
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
2
English, Italian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
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
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Output PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
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]]
[[WoaS test page]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
*bold text*
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
/italics text/
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_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
[[Image::woas.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
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</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
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
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
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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