DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
2.67
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
team
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
Anyone
System Requirements DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4604 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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
Optional
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki KeheiWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[internal]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki remove ikiwiki