Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Version
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
TWiki-6.1.0
2.1.8
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
N/A
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
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
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
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
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Development/Support Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
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
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
no example known
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* 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 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
---
---
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