DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wikidot

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4693 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
= Centered line
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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