| General Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
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2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
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| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Michal Frackowiak
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
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GPL 2
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AGPLv3
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| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
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personal, small to medium companies
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companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
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| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
no limit
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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max uploaded file size limit
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
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by Terms Of Service
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
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Yes
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| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
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| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
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| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4708 ⭐
|
N/A
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| Common Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
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English, Polish |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
None
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
|
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | Wikidot |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
| External Link |
|
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
| Headlines |
|
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
+++ headline level 3 |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
|
//italics// |
//italic text// |
| Underline Format |
|
__underlined__ |
__underlined text__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
{{monospaced text}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strikethrough text-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[image src="..."]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
= Centered line |
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
: item : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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