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| General Features | TWiki  | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 TWiki 5.1.1 |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.17.0 |
2.2.19 |
| Last Release Date |
2012-01-17 |
2012-01-25 |
2011-06-22 |
2010-11-10 |
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Andreas Gohr |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Patrick R. Michaud |
| URL |
twiki.org |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL2 |
| Programming Language |
Perl, JavaScript |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS |
Files |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
 N/A |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
private, small to medium companies |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
All |
| System Requirements | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
|
none |
none |
| Datastorage | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
None |
No |
Can provide custom data backends |
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
Yes |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
| Host Blocking |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| nofollow |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Blacklist |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 8 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
twiki.org |
github.com |
svn.wikimedia.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
| Issue Tracker |
twiki.org |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
twiki.org |
www.freelists.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
| Support Forum |
twiki.org |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
mwusers.com |
www.pmichaud.com |
| IRC Channel |
twiki.org |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
| Common Features | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| 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 |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Interface Languages |
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
55 languages Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140 languages 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 |
27 languages Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Optional |
 Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Optional |
Some |
Plugin |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
Optional, PHP |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Usability | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Toolbar |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Output | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| XML export |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
| Media Search |
Contents |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
No |
| Extras | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
: indented line |
-> indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
---- |
---- |
| Last updated | 2012-04-25 | 2012-02-01 | 2011-06-22 | 2010-11-22 |
