| General Features | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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1.4.2
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5.1.21
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
|
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
|
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Wikka Development Team
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
any (platform-independent)
|
Any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
any server with PHP/MySQL support
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
A common browser
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
No
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Active Directory (patch)
|
optional extensions available
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
42 ⭐
|
8695 ⭐
|
4730 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
0
|
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 |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
JavaScript
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | WikkaWiki | TiddlyWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
! 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** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
//italic// |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospaced## |
{{{monospaced}}} |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
++Strike through text++ |
--strikethrough-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- 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 1.2 # Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
; term : description |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove WikkaWiki | remove TiddlyWiki | remove DokuWiki |