TWiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features TWiki Drupal Wiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
8.37
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-06-12 (11 months ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
GPL
Commercial
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
Different licences
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise
Hosting Features TWiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements TWiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TWiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support TWiki Drupal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki Drupal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Widgets
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output TWiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Media and Files TWiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Optional
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TWiki Drupal Wiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
*bold*
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
_italic_
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
---
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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