TiddlyWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Version
5.1.21
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2026-03-25 (17 days ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Public Domain (!)
GPL 2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
small + medium sites, development teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Datastorage TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Optional
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
no
None
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Development/Support TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
8580 ⭐
N/A
4593 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
optional
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Optional
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Optional
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
''ialic text''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
optional or via css
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
==monospaced text==
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[link to the image.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
optional or via css
Plugin
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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