TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
Everyone
System Requirements TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Node.js
Datastorage TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Optional
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Development/Support TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
19117 ⭐
Common Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
Extras TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italic//
//italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
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
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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