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

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
TWiki-6.1.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (4 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (23 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years 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
Wikka Development Team
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
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Database
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
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
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
any (platform-independent)
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
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
none
none
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
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
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
# 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
42 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Some
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
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
No
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
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
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
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
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]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
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 ==
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>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
++Strike through text++
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
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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