DokuWiki vs. Wikidot vs. Wikia vs. Foswiki

General Features DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
N/A
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
N/A
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Michal Frackowiak
Wikia, Inc.
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL 2
AGPLv3
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
N/A
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
$0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
All users
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Storage Quota
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
no limit
unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
none
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
by Terms Of Service
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
N/A
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
Unknown
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
N/A
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
N/A
No
RCS
No
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Other
None
N/A
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
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
No
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
2
English, Polish
0
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Yes
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Wikidot Wikia Foswiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
+++ headline level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic text//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined text__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospaced text}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough text--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[image src="..."]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Plugin
= Centered line
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* element 1
* element 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# element 1
# element 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: item : description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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