PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Hatta

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Version
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
5.1.21
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Mercurial
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
caching of content into database using plugins
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
n/a
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
n/a
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* 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 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
----
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