TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
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
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
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
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
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
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Development/Support TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
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 WikkaWiki DokuWiki
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
0
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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Features TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Statistics TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italic//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospaced##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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