| General Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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0.30.0
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1.4.2
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
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2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
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2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Wikka Development Team
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2
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Ruby's
|
GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Ruby on Rails
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PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database
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Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
|
0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
general, education
|
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
|
Any
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
any (platform-independent)
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
any server with PHP/MySQL support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
various opt. helpers
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
None
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
No
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Active Directory (patch)
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
4707 ⭐
|
508 ⭐
|
42 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
0
|
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
None
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | Instiki | WikkaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
_italic_, *italic* |
//italic// |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
`monospace` |
##monospaced## |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
++Strike through text++ |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.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 |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
term : definition |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
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