Wikia vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
N/A
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Hosting Features Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
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.
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
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.
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
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.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
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 Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Yes
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)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wikia DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[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]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== 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
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{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
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
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
Numbered Lists
- 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
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
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