alphawiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
v.20160608
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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7039 ⭐
Common Features alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, 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
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.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 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
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~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"
}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
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
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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