Foswiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.1.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
A common browser
Datastorage Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
97 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
---
----
----
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