MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Version
1.32.2
16.3.0
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
2024-04-20 (13 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
2024-04-21 (12 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
# 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
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
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