DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. PageWork

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (24 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (23 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Root Access
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.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.wikimatrix.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 6
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
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
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
---
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