DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PageWork

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4526 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
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 PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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