| General Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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1.45.3
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2.6.0
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phpwiki-1.3.14
|
5.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
|
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
|
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
|
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
|
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Atlassian
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| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
GPL 2
|
GPL
|
GPL2+
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GPL
|
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
All
|
Any
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
none
|
various opt. helpers
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
None
|
No
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
4631 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
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 |
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 |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>above</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>below</sub> |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[ 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 |
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
: indented line |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* list or - list |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# list |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
Term:<def> def |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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---- |
---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove DokuWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove PmWiki | remove PhpWiki | remove Confluence |