MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. UseMod

General Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Version
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
Optional, PHP
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
N/A
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Plugin
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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