Zwiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.61
2.6.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
All
all
System Requirements Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Optional
Oracle
Plugin
No
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Optional
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Yes
No
Scripting
DTML
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* 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
# 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
Horizontal Rule
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