| General Features | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.3.0.0
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5.1.21
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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2.1.1
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
|
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
|
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (17 days ago)
|
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
|
| Author |
J.W. Davidson
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Frank Carver
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Apache License 2.0
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BSD
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GPL 2
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ASL or LGPL
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small organization to enterprise
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
private users and small teams
|
| System Requirements | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Operating System |
Windows
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Any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
|
| Root Access |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
IIS7 or IIS8
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any that can run or call Java
|
| Other Requirements |
IronPython
|
A common browser
|
Java 1.3 or later
|
|
| Datastorage | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
MS Membership and Roles
|
optional extensions available
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
8580 ⭐
|
4593 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| 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 |
0
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| Email notification |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
IronPython
|
JavaScript
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | LynxWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
| Headlines |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
| Bold Format |
*bold* '''bold''' |
''bold'' |
**bold** |
'''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italic// |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
+underlined+ |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
|
| Monospace Format |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
{{{monospaced}}} |
''monospace'' |
monospace |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
--strikethrough-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
| Superscript Format |
superscript^234^ |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
water: H~2~O |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif |
| Aligning Text |
N/A |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
Plugin |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
N/A |
: indented |
| Bulleted Lists |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* first * second |
| Numbered Lists |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. first 1. second |
| Definition Lists |
N/A |
; term : description |
Plugin |
title: description |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
|
| remove LynxWiki | remove TiddlyWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove Friki |