TWiki vs. Phonemos

General Features TWiki Phonemos
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2026.01
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2026-01-15 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2026-02-12 (8 months ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
http://www.phonemos.com
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
GPL
Proprietary
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
React/Typescript, Scala
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Businesses
Hosting Features TWiki Phonemos
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
-
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
System Requirements TWiki Phonemos
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Nginx
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TWiki Phonemos
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
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 Phonemos
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Development/Support TWiki Phonemos
# 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 Phonemos
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki Phonemos
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Italian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki Phonemos
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Syntax Features TWiki Phonemos
HTML Tags
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
via REST API
Content Includes
Yes
Optional
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability TWiki Phonemos
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki Phonemos
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output TWiki Phonemos
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files TWiki Phonemos
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki Phonemos
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TWiki Phonemos
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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