Hatta vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.6.6
5.1.21
2.3.13
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (17 days ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
Any
System Requirements Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Mercurial
A common browser
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8580 ⭐
89 ⭐
4593 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Links Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
Perl
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Hatta TiddlyWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
n/a
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
n/a
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
n/a
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ 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
Aligning Text
n/a
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
Definition Lists
n/a
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
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