WikkaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.4.2
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
8695 ⭐
4730 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
Patch
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a 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 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
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
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
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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