Zim vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Version
0.56
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
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
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
none
Datastorage Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PmWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Email notification
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
None
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim TiddlyWiki TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
``monospace``
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
_{sub}
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{./image.png}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
not implemented
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
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 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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