wxWikiServer vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.5.11c
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
C++
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
NA
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
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 wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
no
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
---+ 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 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
_italic_
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
] centred text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* 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 one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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