UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki

General Features UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
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.
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Patch
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[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]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
Numbered 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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