Hatta vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. LionWiki

General Features Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Version
1.6.6
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.32
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-04-04 (13 years ago)
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
GPL v2
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
none
Datastorage Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
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.
None
no
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
n/a
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.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
No
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
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, Spanish, Dutch
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Links Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
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)
Optional, PHP
optional
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Hatta TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
''ialic text''
''italics''
Underline Format
n/a
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
optional or via css
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
n/a
| 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
Plugin
optional or via css
Text Indentation
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* 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
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
n/a
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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
n/a
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
----
----
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