PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PageWork vs. TWiki

General Features PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.4.8
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Pitt Murmann
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
personal, small to medium companies
Medium-sized sites
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
2
German, English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki DokuWiki PageWork TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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