MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. JSPWiki

General Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Version
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
TWiki-6.1.0
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
all
System Requirements MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Works on standard shared hosting
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
__bold__
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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