DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (9 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
none
Datastorage DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
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
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki remove MediaWiki