TiddlyWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Version
5.1.21
2.11.0
1.45.3
0.61
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
A common browser
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
8638 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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 TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
0
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Output TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''bold''
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
;term:definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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