DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Wikidot

General Features DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Datastorage DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
None
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4536 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[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
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
----
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***
___
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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