TWiki vs. UseMod vs. Zwiki vs. Wiclear

General Features TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.2.2
0.61
1.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
GPL2
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
private users
System Requirements TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
Apache
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
MySql
Datastorage TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Development/Support TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
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
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
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
0
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Links TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Optional
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
DTML
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
Extras TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki UseMod Zwiki Wiclear
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[Title]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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..
[Title|http://url.to/]
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 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://url.com/pic.gif
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;Term:Definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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