DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. JSPWiki

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (9 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (8 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (28 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
all
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
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.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Works on standard shared hosting
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
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
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
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]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
__bold__
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
::centered text::
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
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 1.1
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
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