Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
None
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
MariaDB
No
None
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
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
# 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 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
Optional, PHP
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
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! 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 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
%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
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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