| General Features | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
v21.12.1
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
|
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
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2022-01-06 (3 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
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2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
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2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
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2022-01-08 (3 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Dan Brown
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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LGPL
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GPL
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MIT
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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N/A
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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| 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.
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Works on standard shared hosting
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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
MariaDB
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| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
4500 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
|
17952 ⭐
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| 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 |
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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 |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TWiki | BookStack |
| 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]] |
|
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[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 == |
-= 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* |
|
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
|
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
===underline=== |
<u>underline</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
-+monospace+- |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strike-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{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 |
|
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
::centered text:: |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
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 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
;term:definition |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
--- |
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