Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. GWiki

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Version
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (9 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (8 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
Node.js
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 1.8+
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
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.
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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.
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
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
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
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)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript~
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
| 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
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* 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 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
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 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
---
----
---
----
----
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