DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.1.21
8.26
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-05-31 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-06-05 (11 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Commercial
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Different licences
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
optional extensions available
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
Widgets
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: description
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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