| General Features | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.9.1
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
2.67
|
phpwiki-1.3.14
|
| Last Release Date |
2007-02-12 (17 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2007-02-13 (17 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Thomas Linden
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
GPL / none
|
N/A
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
average to advanced users
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Anyone
|
Any
|
| System Requirements | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
Unix
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Any
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
apache
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Any, or none
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite optional
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
various opt. helpers
|
|
| Datastorage | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
builtin
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#49
|
#phpwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
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 |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
1
English |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Links | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Perl
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PodWiki | TWiki | ikiwiki | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
POD: L<Sandbox> L<Link Description|Sandbox> Creole: [[Sandbox]] [[Sandbox|Link Description]] BBcode: [url]Sandbox[/url] [url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[internal]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
=head1 The Weather |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
B<bold> |
*bold* |
**bold** __bold__ |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
I<italics> |
_italic_ |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
via html only |
<u>underline</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
via html only |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
via html only |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
via html only |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
G<logo.png> |
%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 |
| Aligning Text |
via stylesheet only |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
via stylesheet only |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
=over =item* listitem =back |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
via html only |
$ Term: Definition |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
--- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
---- |
| remove PodWiki | remove TWiki | remove ikiwiki | remove PhpWiki |