| General Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
phpwiki-1.3.14
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
1.0.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2024-05-01 (1 day ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Clay Alberty
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
GPL 2
|
GPL
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GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
N/A
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Free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Any
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
IIS 5+
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
various opt. helpers
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
None
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
.NET Membership platform
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
||
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
No
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
||
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
||
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
||
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
||
| Extras | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | PhpWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[pagename] |
| External Link |
|
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
{title|url} |
| Headlines |
|
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!, !!, !!! |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
//italics// |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
_italic_ |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__under__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
| Images |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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 |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
available through custom tags |
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
multiple spaces -> |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* list or - list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
| Numbered Lists |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# list |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
Term:<def> def |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
|
---- |
---- |
--- |
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| remove CanvasWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove PhpWiki | remove TWiki | remove ProntoWiki |