GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Everyone
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
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.
All
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Node.js
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Other
Google Datastore
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.
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
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.
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki 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 GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
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
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
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)
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[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]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript Text~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{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 Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
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
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- 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
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
---
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