TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Version
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.67
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8587 ⭐
4606 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 ikiwiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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