PBwiki vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
N/A
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2.5.6
2.11.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
N/A
0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
all
Hosting Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
none
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
RCS
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
N/A
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Output PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki TWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[ 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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
Indented block
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
<dl>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
----
----
----
----
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