DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
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
Everyone
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
All
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
All
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Node.js
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
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
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
# 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
19117 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
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 Wiki.js
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
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
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
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
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
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
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
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
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
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
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki Wiki.js
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]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
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 Title](/path/to/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
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
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. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
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