MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. UseMod vs. Roadkill

General Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Version
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.0
1.6
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
27/04/2013
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2013-04-25 (10 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Clifford Adams
C.Small
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
MS-PL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
C#
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
System Requirements MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
IIS, Apache
Other Requirements
none
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
Datastorage MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
SQL Server, MongoDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Patch
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
No
Special Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
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
3
Czech, English, Polish
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
No
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional
Optional, PHP
None
none
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Usability MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Output MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
No
Extras MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki UseMod Roadkill
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Pagename|linkname]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[URL|linkname]]
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 ======
== Large heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
** bold **
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
_underline_
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
{{

monospace

}}
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
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
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
* Bullet List
** Sub item
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Numbered list
## Sub item
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Plugin
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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