| General Features | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.0.045
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
2.1.8
|
2.3.33
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
2024-04-20 (18 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
|
2024-04-21 (17 days ago)
|
| Author |
Helmut Leitner
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Foswiki Community
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
GPL
|
GPL2+
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
$0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
All
|
| System Requirements | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Unix / Linux
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
None
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
97 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Optional, PHP
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | ProWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
---+ 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 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underlined__ |
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
''monospace'' |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>text</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>text</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Plugin |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line :: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
N/A |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
* 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 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term: definition |
$ Term: Definition |
Plugin |
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove ProWiki | remove TWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove Foswiki | remove PmWiki |