GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
A common browser
none
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
; term
: description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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