Zim vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.56
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
System Requirements Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
None
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
``monospace``
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
_{sub}
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{./image.png}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
not implemented
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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