Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Version
5.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
Software development teams
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
various opt. helpers
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4592 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Filenames only
No
Extras Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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