TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.4
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (12 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-12-06 (12 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
A common browser
Datastorage TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
# 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 : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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