TiddlyWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Version
5.1.21
2.5.8
1.32.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
System Requirements TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8574 ⭐
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Output TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
; term
: description
: term : definition
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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