TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Version
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-09 (8 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (8 days ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Any
System Requirements TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
8563 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
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 TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[ 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
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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