alphawiki vs. TWiki vs. GWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Version
v.20160608
TWiki-6.1.0
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
Datastorage alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Google Datastore
None
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
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
2
German, 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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki TWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
*bold*
*Bold Format*
**bold**
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
_italic_
_Italic format_
//italics//
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</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
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
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 2
-- Sub Item
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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