TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
16.2.0
2.3.32
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
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
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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
97 ⭐
Common Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, 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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! 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'''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%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
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> 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 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# 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
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
----
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