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

General Features Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2.1.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
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
GPL2+
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
N/A
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki 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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
No
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.
caching of content into database using plugins
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki 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 ⭐
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki 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 TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Plugin
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Perl
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)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
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
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse TWiki PmWiki Foswiki DokuWiki 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
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[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 6
! 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 ==
==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''
_italic_
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<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)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
no example known
| 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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
: 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
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
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
---
----
----
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