bLADE Wiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
3.4.9
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
System Requirements bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
42 ⭐
4536 ⭐
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
0
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Patch
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Statistics bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Patch
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*bold text*
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
=italic text=
//italic//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
_underlined text_
__underlined__
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
##monospaced##
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[$image.jpg$]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
___
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove bLADE Wiki remove WikkaWiki remove DokuWiki remove ikiwiki