DokuWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. PhpWiki

General Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Tiki Software Community Association
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Any
System Requirements DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
None
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
Plugin
::centered text::
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
leading spaces, if activated.
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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