DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. SubWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WiGit

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.32.2
0.1-dev
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
no official
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Greg Stein
Tiki Software Community Association
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Academic Free License
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
RCS
Database
other
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Private users
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
None
Git
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
No
No
MariaDB
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
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
1
English
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
None
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
None
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki SubWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WiGit
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[InternalLink]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
"External link":http://externallink.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
h1. Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
*Bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
_Italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
N/A
===underline===
+underlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospaced}}
-+monospace+-
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
--strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
::centered text::
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
N/A
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
N/A
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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