TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. KeheiWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. TWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Version
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
Pleiades-M45
2.67
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
team
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Perl
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
corporate and special interest groups
Anyone
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Unix/Linux
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any, or none
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
perl 4 or newer
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
No
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Apache
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8586 ⭐
4604 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Perl
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse KeheiWiki ikiwiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[internal]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[link text](http://example.org)
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
no example known
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
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