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

General Features Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
2.5.299
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
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)
2024-04-20 (17 days 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)
2024-04-21 (16 days ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
Javascript
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
All
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Node.js
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
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
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
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
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
Email notification
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JS, CSS
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italic//
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
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}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
---
----
----
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