PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.3.32
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
1.4.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (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.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Wikka Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any (platform-independent)
Any
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
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Active Directory (patch)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
# 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
42 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
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
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki WikkaWiki TiddlyWiki
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! 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>
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospaced##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
++Strike through text++
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
~~subscript~~
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]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.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>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
:indent

> quote

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

~- 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
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)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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