| General Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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2.3.33
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5.1.21
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2024-04-20 (1 month ago)
|
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2024-05-21 (today)
|
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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GPL2+
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BSD
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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HTML, JavaScript
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PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
All
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Individuals, private, small groups
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
A common browser
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Other |
None
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
No
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
optional extensions available
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Development/Support | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
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7039 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| 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 | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
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 |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
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 |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
JavaScript
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
''bold'' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
@@monospace@@ |
{{{monospaced}}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
{-strikethrough-} |
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
: term : definition |
; term : description |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove DokuWiki | remove PmWiki | remove TiddlyWiki | remove MediaWiki |