DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki vs. TWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Anyone
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any, or none
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
None
No
0
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
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
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
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
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki TWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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