TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. JSPWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Version
5.1.21
1.32.2
2.3.13
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
all
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Writable data directory
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
Perl
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Statistics TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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