DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
phpwiki-1.3.14
8.26
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (27 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
Commercial
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Different licences
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Any
Enterprise
Hosting Features DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
Widgets
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Internal Link
[[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 or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[ 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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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