PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Version
2.3.32
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
TWiki-6.1.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and 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. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
none
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 PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
No
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 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 PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
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
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
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
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
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
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
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
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki Foswiki
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! 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
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
_italic_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
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
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# 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 : definition
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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