Zim vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Version
0.56
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
Any
System Requirements Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
None
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Development/Support Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim DokuWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link 
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link 
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines 
=== Heading ===
 
====== 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 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
*bold*

''bold''
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
//italics//
 
_italic_
 
//italic//
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
__underlined__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
__underline__
 
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format 
``monospace``
 
''monospace''
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

{{{monospaced}}}
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
~~strike~~
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
--strikethrough--
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format 
^{sup}
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format 
_{sub}
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
~~subscript~~
 
<sub>below</sub>
Images 
{{./image.png}}
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text 
not implemented
 
Plugin
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>
Text Indentation 
indent with tabs
 
N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level
Bulleted Lists 
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists 
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
# list
Definition Lists 
not implemented
 
Plugin
 
$ Term: Definition
 
; term
: description
 
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule 
not implemented
 
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