| General Features | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
TWiki-6.1.0
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1.5.1
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
|
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
|
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
|
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
N/A
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
OS independent
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
|
|
| Datastorage | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
4677 ⭐
|
| Common Features | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
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
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | PukiWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
''bold'' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
'''italic''' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
%%%underlined%%% |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
N/A |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
%%strikethrough%% |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
N/A |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
N/A |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
N/A |
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 |
| Numbered Lists |
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 |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
-------------------- |
---- |
| remove TWiki | remove PukiWiki | remove DokuWiki |