PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Version
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Any
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
various opt. helpers
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
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
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Extras PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ 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
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>below</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
; term
: description
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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----
----
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