TWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.67
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Anyone
all
Any
System Requirements TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any, or none
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Yes
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Development/Support TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Links TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ 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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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