DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-05-16 (1 day ago)
Last Update here
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
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
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
C#
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
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
Webserver
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
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Other
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 DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
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
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples 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 -> &nbsp;
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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