GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki

General Features GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
16.3.0
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)
2024-04-29 (3 days 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)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, 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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
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
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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.
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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.
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
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.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
# 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
N/A
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
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
Yes
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
Plugin
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)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
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
No
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
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
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki XWiki
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]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
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:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
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
* List
** list
*** list
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
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
----
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