DokuWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Foswiki vs. SharePoint Wiki Plus

General Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2.1.8
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2017-08-04 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-01 (19 days ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2018-10-11 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Tiki Software Community Association
Foswiki Community
KWizCom Corporation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
per server
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
.NET - C#
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
$3680
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
System Requirements DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows Server 2003/2008
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Microsoft IIS
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Datastorage DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
MariaDB
caching of content into database using plugins
MS SQL Server
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki SharePoint Wiki Plus
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
-= Titlebar =-
! 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====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
'''Bold text'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''Italicized text''
Underline Format
__underlined__
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined text</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text=
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strike through</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<div align="right">
Text Indentation
N/A
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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