TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Version
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Python
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
all
System Requirements TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
8574 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
113 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Usability TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki TWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ 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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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