UseMod vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki

General Features UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Version
1.2.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Links UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
None
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
N/A
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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