TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (25 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (24 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
none
Datastorage TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
no
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Patch
Development/Support TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki PmWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
optional or via css
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* 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 A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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