ErfurtWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (24 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (23 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
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
Other Requirements
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
no
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 ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
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
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
optional
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[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]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
====== 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
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''ialic text''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
{{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
Aligning Text
optional or via css
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
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* 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
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

- 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
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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