DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (11 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (20 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (10 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (20 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
# 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
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
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
Unlimited
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 PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
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]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.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
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
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 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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