MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
A common browser
Datastorage MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# 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
: term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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