Pwic.wiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.2
18.5.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-06-24 (2 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-06-24 (2 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Team Pwic.wiki
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
20 ⭐
N/A
8615 ⭐
Common Features Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Optional
Yes
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 Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
3
German, English, French
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Patch
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
External API for automation and bots
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Plugin
Statistics Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Patch
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pwic.wiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
*italics*
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
--underline--
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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