DokuWiki vs. Git-Wiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
MIT
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby
Perl
Data Storage
Files
RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Private, Public
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Ruby
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
None
Git
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Plugin system, backends can be added
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4638 ⭐
242 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
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
Optional
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
XML based, Javascript
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Git-Wiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples 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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