WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.4.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
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
family people, hackers
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Anything supported by Perl
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)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Writable data directory
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
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 Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
4706 ⭐
8634 ⭐
89 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
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
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 WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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 Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse
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]]
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://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.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 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//
//italics//
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[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]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
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
* one
** two
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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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