UseMod vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.0
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples UseMod TWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[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 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== 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>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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