TiddlyWiki vs. Hatta vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
5.1.21
1.6.6
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.67
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (17 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL v2
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
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
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
A common browser
Mercurial
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
None
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
n/a
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
8580 ⭐
N/A
4593 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
Email notification
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
n/a
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
- 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
Definition Lists
; term
: description
n/a
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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