DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
16.3.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everyone
Hosting Features DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
All
Root Access
No
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.
Servlet 3.1+
All
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
Datastorage DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
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.
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki 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
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
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
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Media and Files DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
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]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[Link Title](/link/to/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://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
//Italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
~Subscript Text~
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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
![Image Title](/path/to/image.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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
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
* List
** list
*** list
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
---
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