TiddlyWiki vs. Zwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Version
5.1.21
0.61
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPLv2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Any
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Zope
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
Yes
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
ZODB (zope object database)
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
8475 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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 Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Links TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
DTML
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Zwiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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