PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
16.3.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (13 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (12 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
family people, hackers
Hosting Features PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
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
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
# 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 PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
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
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
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
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki XWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[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]]
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)
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//Italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning 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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
no example known
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
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
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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