PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2.5.4
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
no
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4500 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
optional or via css
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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