WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.4.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
none
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
4706 ⭐
8634 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
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 WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
; term
: description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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