JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Any
Anyone
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Links JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ 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
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: 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 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
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