TiddlyWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Version
5.1.21
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Public Domain (!)
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
small + medium sites, development teams
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
System Requirements TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Any
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
no
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Patch
Optional
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
8587 ⭐
N/A
4606 ⭐
89 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
optional
Optional, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki 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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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

> quote

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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