DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PageWork vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
2.3.13
0.4.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Pitt Murmann
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
free
none
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
Medium-sized sites
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Patch
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Proprietary
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork PhpWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
This is --not-- important.
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>above</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>below</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
[ 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
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* list
or
- list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
--------------------
---
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