WikiMatrix / TWiki vs. DokuWiki

Paddy A · 2008-08-12 02:39:26

Hi there,

I have been doing a lot of research for a company wiki. I have narrowed my choice down to either TWiki or DocuWiki but am seeking some advice as to which would suit better. We a primarily an engineering company and the wiki content will be mainly technical. The company wiki is intended to serve two purposes 1) an internal knowledge and document management system; and 2) a public wiki with an online community that is completely editable (more like a conventional wiki).

The reason TWiki or DocuWiki appeal is their access control. Being able to allow certain information to de disclosed while allowing other information to be publically accessed is important.

We can foresee that the publically available wiki content has the potential to grow quite large and therefore scalability is important. Additional to this it would be good if the internal knowledge and document management system was flexible. By this I mean that as the company grows and our operations change we may use the wiki to support this.

If anyone has used either of these engines for a similar purpose I would be keen to hear their comment. I would be very appreciative if anyone could offer advice on the choice between TWiki and DocuWiki.

Paddy A

SvenDowideit · 2008-08-13 04:20:31

Hey there Paddy,

I've not used DokuWiki, being a TWiki user and developer for the last 10 years. From a quick perusal of http://www.dokuwiki.org/features , I think I can see the following differences:

TWiki has a big generic in Wiki application building syntax, which your users can use to build web applications inside topics - the TWiki Bug tracking system is an example of this - http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki4/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/

On the flip side, the TWiki search does not currently use an index based backend, rather relies on grep or pcre - but I'm busy working on that

I can't see any other real differences other than TWiki is written in Perl, while Doku is in PHP (and which is better is totally a matter of opinion)

hopefully someone that's used both in anger can tell us more

Sven

literakl · 2008-08-13 16:43:51

TWiki search does not currently use an index based backend, rather relies on grep or pcre - but I'm busy working on that

Are you? I am actually disappointed with twiki performance and started to look up for other wiki engines based on rdbms. Any improvement in this area is most welcome.

SvenDowideit · 2008-08-13 16:48:10

yep. See my blog http://distributedinformation.com/ for progress - at the moment I'm working with the KinoSearch AddOn, as its the most mature and well developed (for TWiki).

Later this knowledge will be xfered to the TWiki 5.0 feature that I'll be working on - full DBStore support.

e2l · 2008-08-14 17:08:38

SvenDowideit wrote:
I can't see any other real differences other than TWiki is written in Perl, while Doku is in PHP (and which is better is totally a matter of opinion)

Well, I don't know which one is "better", but most shared hosting user cannot use Perl. I'd love to host a Twiki, but I'm not allowed to install one.

PeterThoeny · 2008-08-21 05:25:51

literakl wrote:
Are you? I am actually disappointed with twiki performance and started to look up for other wiki engines based on rdbms. Any improvement in this area is most welcome.

TWiki scales reasonably well. I know of company internal installations that have several hundred thousand pages, 1000+ webs (workspaces), and 10,000+ registered users. I wrote a blog post on TWiki scalability: http://www.twiki.net/blog_2008-03-25.html

TWiki is listed here on WikiMatrix at http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/TWiki

-- peter.thoeny.public [at] twiki [dot] net - http://www.twiki.net/ - http://twiki.org/

[1]: http://www.twiki.net/

Last edited by PeterThoeny (2008-08-21 07:11:42)

#1 2008-08-12 02:39:26

TWiki vs. DokuWiki

#2 2008-08-13 04:20:31

Re: TWiki vs. DokuWiki

#3 2008-08-13 16:43:51

Re: TWiki vs. DokuWiki

#4 2008-08-13 16:48:10

Re: TWiki vs. DokuWiki

#5 2008-08-14 17:08:38

Re: TWiki vs. DokuWiki

SvenDowideit wrote:

#6 2008-08-21 05:25:51

Re: TWiki vs. DokuWiki

literakl wrote:

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