CanvasWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Git-Wiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Version
1.2.101
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
GPL 2
MIT
GPL
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
Ruby
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
personal, small to medium companies
Private, Public
family people, hackers
System Requirements CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
Ruby
Writable data directory
Datastorage CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Other
Access, SQL Server
None
Git
No
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Plugin system, backends can be added
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
XML based, Javascript
Perl
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{Image.png}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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