alphawiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Version
v.20160608
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Any
System Requirements alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
various opt. helpers
Datastorage alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
None
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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 TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Extras alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
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]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
_italic_
//italics//
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>below</sub>
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"
}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol 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
# list
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
; term
: description
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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