Wiki.js vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.5.299
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Javascript
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Node.js
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
Yes
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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 Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
28444 ⭐
N/A
8594 ⭐
4635 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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 Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
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
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JS, CSS
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
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
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki.js TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
---+ 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 Text**
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
_italic_
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
%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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* 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
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
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
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
---
----
----
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