Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
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
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
None
none
A common browser
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
No
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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7039 ⭐
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
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]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
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 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
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
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
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
Plugin
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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