TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Foswiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
2.11.0
2.1.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
Foswiki Community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, 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
All
all
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Any
System Requirements TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably 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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
caching of content into database using plugins
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[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]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* 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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
: term : definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
---
----
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