PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
TWiki-6.1.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (28 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*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, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
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
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
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
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 PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
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
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[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]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==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
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<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
[[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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* 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
Numbered Lists
# list
# 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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