Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
---
----
----
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