TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Version
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
family people, hackers
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
no
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
8524 ⭐
4526 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
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
No
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
optional
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Optional
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
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
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''ialic text''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
optional or via css
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.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
optional or via css
no example known
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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remove TiddlyWiki remove DokuWiki remove ErfurtWiki remove Oddmuse