ErfurtWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. PageWork vs. Hatta

General Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
TWiki-6.1.0
0.4.8
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Pitt Murmann
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPLv3
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
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
Any
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Mercurial
Datastorage ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
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
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Proprietary
n/a
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
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
2
German, English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
All
All
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
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
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki PageWork Hatta
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]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[link]]
[[link|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]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
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
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italic//
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
n/a
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
n/a
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
n/a
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
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
n/a
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>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
n/a
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
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* list
** sublist
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
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
n/a
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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