DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. BookStack

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2022-01-06 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
2022-01-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
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.
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
None
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
No
MariaDB
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4500 ⭐
N/A
N/A
17952 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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
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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BookStack
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
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
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
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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