TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
family people, hackers
System Requirements TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Development/Support TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 Zwiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Optional
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
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Links TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Patch
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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