Wikepage vs. ikiwiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
2008.1
2.67
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (8 days ago)
Author
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small groups
Anyone
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Platform Independent
Any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Server Independent
Any, or none
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
n/a
A common browser
Datastorage Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8574 ⭐
4593 ⭐
Common Features Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
1
English
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
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wikepage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
[[internal]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! 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''
**bold**
Italics Format
''Italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__Underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
With a space in front of the text
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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