SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
1.45.3
TWiki-6.1.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2017-08-05 (9 years ago)
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (8 years ago)
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
per server
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
.NET - C#
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
MS SQL Server
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Security/Anti-Spam SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
javascript
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''Bold text'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''Italicized text''
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined text</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text=
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<div align="right">
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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