TiddlyWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Version
5.1.21
2.5.5
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (2 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (2 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
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.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8501 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
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
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 PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
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
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
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 1.1
* 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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
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