MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. Confluence vs. Oddmuse

General Features MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Version
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
5.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Atlassian
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise + Technical Teams
family people, hackers
Hosting Features MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache Tomcat
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Writable data directory
Datastorage MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki Confluence Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
+underline+
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-strikethrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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