Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Version
2.5.299
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
BSD
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Node.js
none
None
A common browser
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
No
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
No
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
28121 ⭐
4592 ⭐
N/A
N/A
8577 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~~subscript~~
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
---
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