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

General Features Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.5.299
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Javascript
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
All
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Node.js
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
Yes
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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 Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
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
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
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JS, CSS
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italic//
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
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
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
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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