alphawiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. GWiki

General Features alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Version
v.20160608
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
A common browser
Java 1.8+
Datastorage alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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7039 ⭐
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Common Features alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki GWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
**bold**
''bold''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
//italics//
//italic//
_Italic format_
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underlined__
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
~Subscript~
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Plugin
; term
: description
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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