DokuWiki vs. GWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.4.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2018-06-15 (8 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Roger Rene Kommer
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
Google Datastore
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4693 ⭐
7 ⭐
42 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
2
German, English
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki GWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
*Bold Format*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_Italic format_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{Monospace}}
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-StrikeThrough-
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
(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
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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