DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
private users
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
All
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
none
MySql
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4471 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
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
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Title]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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