TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Confluence

General Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.32
5.2
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Development/Support TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
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 TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Confluence
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
+underline+
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~subscript~
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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