ikiwiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Sputnik vs. Oddmuse

General Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Version
2.67
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
8.08.13
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (25 days ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Yuri Takhteyev
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
MIT/X
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Lua
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
Small teams or private users
family people, hackers
System Requirements ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Operating System
Any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
A common browser
gcc or Lua
Writable data directory
Datastorage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Git
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8586 ⭐
4599 ⭐
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Lua, JavaScript
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Sputnik Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[internal]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Sputnik]]
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
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
**bold**
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
//italics//
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
> Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Sputnik
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term
: description
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
- - -
Depending on plugins:
----
remove ikiwiki remove TiddlyWiki remove DokuWiki remove Sputnik remove Oddmuse