TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Version
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everyone
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Node.js
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== 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
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* 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 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
# 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
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
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