PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
TWiki-6.1.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (24 days 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
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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.
System Requirements PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably 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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
None
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# 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 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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 WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|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 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
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>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{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}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
N/A
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* 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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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