TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.3
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2021-12-01 (3 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
All
all
System Requirements TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
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 TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki PhpWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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