DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.45.3
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
none
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Apache
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4680 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove DokuWiki remove MediaWiki remove KeheiWiki