| General Features | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.3.0.0
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0.56
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
2.11.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
|
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
|
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
J.W. Davidson
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache License 2.0
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
Apache License 2.0
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
Python
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
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N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small organization to enterprise
|
Private users, small teams
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
all
|
| System Requirements | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
| Root Access |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS7 or IIS8
|
None
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
| Other Requirements |
IronPython
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
| Datastorage | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
MS Membership and Roles
|
File permissions
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
88 ⭐
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| Common Features | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
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 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
None
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
IronPython
|
None
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Usability | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | LynxWiki | Zim | TWiki | JSPWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
| Headlines |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
=== Heading === |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* '''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* |
__bold__ |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
+underlined+ |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
| Monospace Format |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
``monospace`` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
~~strike~~ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
| Superscript Format |
superscript^234^ |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
| Subscript Format |
water: H~2~O |
_{sub} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
| Images |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
{{./image.png}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
| Aligning Text |
N/A |
not implemented |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
indent with tabs |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
| Bulleted Lists |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
N/A |
not implemented |
$ Term: Definition |
;term:definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
not implemented |
--- |
---- |
| remove LynxWiki | remove Zim | remove TWiki | remove JSPWiki |