DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
TWiki-6.1.0
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users
System Requirements DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4629 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Italian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Output DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TWiki Wiki on a Stick
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[WoaS test page]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
*bold text*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
/italics text/
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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