Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Version
5.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
0.11.5
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
Any
All
Software development teams
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
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 PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything 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)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
various opt. helpers
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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)
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
42 ⭐
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
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
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Patch
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a 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]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ 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
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
term::
definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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