JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wikepage

General Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Version
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
2008.1
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2008-10-13 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2008-10-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jose Carlos Medeiros
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private users, small groups
System Requirements JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Platform Independent
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
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Server Independent
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
n/a
Datastorage JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
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
No
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 TWiki Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
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 TWiki Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Optional
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**Bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
''Italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__Underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
With a space in front of the text
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
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
n/a
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>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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