UseMod vs. TWiki vs. TracWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.11.5
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Edgewall Software
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Software development teams
Any
System Requirements UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
various opt. helpers
Datastorage UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
0
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
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 UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
yes, using Python
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Usability UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod TWiki TracWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike-through~~
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[ 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
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# list
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
term::
definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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