PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Zim

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Version
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
0.56
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (4 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Private users, small teams
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OSX
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
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
None
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
File permissions
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Special Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki Zim
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
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:wiki.png]]
{{./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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
not implemented
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
indent with tabs
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 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
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 1.2
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
not implemented
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