DokuWiki vs. GWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.4.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Roger Rene Kommer
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
A common browser
Datastorage DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
Google Datastore
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
7 ⭐
8486 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
*Bold Format*
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
_Italic format_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{Monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
~~subscript~~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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----
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