TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (14 days ago)
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (13 days ago)
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
MPL-2.0
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
C++
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Free!
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
All
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
End users/Desktop
System Requirements TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux / Windows
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
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.
Anything PHP enabled
built-in
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
None
Datastorage TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
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.
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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.
None yet
unknown
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
133 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
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
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
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)
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
no
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Usability TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki wxWikiServer
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]]
[[Internal Link]]s
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
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://...]]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
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
# Headline
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold text**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
`code text`
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
sometext~subscript~
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
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
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
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
] centred text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> Blockquote
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
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 A
* Item B
* Item C
* one
* two
* two.1
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
1. A
2. B
3. C
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
-------
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