DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
various opt. helpers
none
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((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]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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