DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. TWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everyone
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All
Other Requirements
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Node.js
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Other
None
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
*bold*
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
_italic_
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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