DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
# 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
7039 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
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
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
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