Wikidot vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
all
Hosting Features Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
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.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
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.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
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)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
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
No
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 Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[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]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[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://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
+++ headline level 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 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[image src="..."]]
{{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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
= Centered line
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-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
- 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 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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