DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-05-01 (1 day ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days 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)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clay Alberty
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
C#
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
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+
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
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
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki TWiki ProntoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[pagename]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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}
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
!, !!, !!!
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__under__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
,,subscript,,
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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#
##
###
####
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
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