Wikidot vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
One theme, one PukiWiki
Hosting Features Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Optional
No
RCS
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
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
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Output Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot TWiki JSPWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
*bold*
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
//italic text//
_italic_
''italics''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
N/A
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
N/A
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
N/A
Images
[[image src="..."]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
= Centered line
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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