TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (27 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
System Requirements TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Writable data directory
Datastorage TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8585 ⭐
4600 ⭐
89 ⭐
Common Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[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://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]]
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
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
//italic//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

# one
## two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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