| General Features | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
v21.12.1
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.5.299
|
| Last Release Date |
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (8 months ago)
|
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
|
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Dan Brown
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Nicolas Giard
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
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GPL 2
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AGPL-v3
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Javascript
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Everyone
|
| System Requirements | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
All
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
All
|
| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
Node.js
|
|
| Datastorage | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
None
|
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
18790 ⭐
|
4624 ⭐
|
28374 ⭐
|
| Common Features | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
JS, CSS
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media and Files | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | BookStack | DokuWiki | Wiki.js |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
| External Link |
|
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
| Headlines |
|
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
**Bold Text** |
| Italics Format |
|
//italics// |
*Italic Text* |
| Underline Format |
|
__underlined__ |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
`Monospace Code` |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^Superscript Text^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~Subscript Text~ |
| Images |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
 |
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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| remove BookStack | remove DokuWiki | remove Wiki.js |