PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2.3.34
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2024-05-26 (7 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-27 (6 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 months ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
%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
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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