DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
French
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[ ]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
** **
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
// //
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__ __
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
## ##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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