SubWiki vs. Friki vs. JSPWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Version
0.1-dev
2.1.1
2.11.0
5.1.21
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
no official
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Frank Carver
Apache Software Foundation
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
ASL or LGPL
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
all
Individuals, private, small groups
Any
System Requirements SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Any that can run or call Java
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
A common browser
various opt. helpers
Datastorage SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
optional extensions available
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
114 ⭐
8547 ⭐
N/A
Common Features SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, French, Japanese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
No
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
None
None
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Statistics SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
No
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
No
Extras SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples SubWiki Friki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold''
__bold__
''bold''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italics''
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
N/A
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
monospace
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
N/A
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
N/A
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~~subscript~~
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[ 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
Aligning Text
N/A
%%(text-align: right) text %%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
:        indented
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
N/A
title:        description
;term:definition
; term
: description
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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