GWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.4.0
5.1.21
1.32.2
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
System Requirements GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
A common browser
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
optional extensions available
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Output GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.com]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
''bold''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: description
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
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