Zim vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Version
0.56
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
5.1.21
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
All
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
none
A common browser
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
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.
optional extensions available
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[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]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
=== Heading ===
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
``monospace``
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{./image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
not implemented
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* 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
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
- 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: description
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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