TWiki vs. UseMod vs. PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.2.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (6 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clifford Adams
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
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
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Links TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples TWiki UseMod PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://url.com/pic.gif
[ 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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;Term:Definition
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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