wxWikiServer vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.5.11c
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
1.4.2
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)
2020-04-19 (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)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
C++
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
NA
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
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
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
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
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Development/Support wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
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 wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Features wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
no
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Statistics wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer TWiki TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[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://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[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 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
_italic_
//italic//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospaced##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<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]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.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
}}}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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