DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. GWiki

General Features DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (25 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (24 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 1.8+
Datastorage DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
# 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
4 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
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 TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
====== 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
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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