| General Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.1.21
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18.2.0
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0.56
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| Last Release Date |
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
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2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
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2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
GPL
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| Programming Language |
HTML, JavaScript
|
Java
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database, RCS
|
Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Private users, small teams
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| Hosting Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Operating System |
Any
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
None
|
| Other Requirements |
A common browser
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
| Datastorage | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Text Files |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
optional extensions available
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
File permissions
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
8577 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | TiddlyWiki | XWiki | Zim |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details. The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax). [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
| External Link |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
=== Heading === |
| Bold Format |
''bold'' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
//Italics// |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{{monospaced}}} |
##monospace## |
``monospace`` |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
--Strike-- |
~~strike~~ |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
^{sup} |
| Subscript Format |
~~subscript~~ |
,,subscript,, |
_{sub} |
| Images |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
{{./image.png}} |
| Aligning Text |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
not implemented |
| Text Indentation |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
indent with tabs |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
| Definition Lists |
; term : description |
; term : definition |
not implemented |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
not implemented |
| remove TiddlyWiki | remove XWiki | remove Zim |