TiddlyWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WikiCrowd

General Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Version
5.1.21
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.0.16
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
29 Nov, 2010
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-11-29 (13 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Stas Davydov
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
Personal, Corporate, Community
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Operating System
Any
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
No
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
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
2
English, Russian
Email notification
Unknown
Patch
Optional
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
Plugin, JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
Patch
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
No
Extras TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki WikiCrowd
Internal Link 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
External Link 
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
Headlines 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
//italic//
 
//italics//
 
//italic//
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
__underlined__
 
__underlined__
 
No
Monospace Format 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
##monospaced##
 
''monospace''
 
No
Strikethrough Format 
--strikethrough--
 
++Strike through text++
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
No
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
 
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
Subscript Format 
~~subscript~~
 
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
_subscript_
Images 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
@img url
Aligning Text 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
 
Plugin
 
No
Text Indentation 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
 
N/A
 
No
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
No
Definition Lists 
; term
: description
 
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
 
Plugin
 
No
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
----
 
----
 
No
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