DokuWiki vs. WiGit vs. ikiwiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.1
2.67
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Remko Tronçon
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Ruby
Data Storage
Files
other
Files, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Private users
Anyone
Private, Public
System Requirements DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
Git
Ruby
Datastorage DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
None
Git repositories
Git
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
242 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
0
1
English
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Links DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Output DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[InternalLink]
[[internal]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Headline
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
*Bold*
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_Italics_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
+underlined+
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@monospace@
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!image.jpg!
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
remove DokuWiki remove WiGit remove ikiwiki remove Git-Wiki