| General Features | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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1.13.1
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
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2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
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2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
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| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
Poul Staugaard
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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AGPLv3
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new BSD License
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Python
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| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
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other
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
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companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
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community/personal
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| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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no limit
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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max uploaded file size limit
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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by Terms Of Service
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows/Mac/Linux
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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Google App Engine or SDK
|
|
| Other Requirements |
Python 2.5
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| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
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| MySQL |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Oracle |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Other |
None
|
App Engine
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Google accounts
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
4693 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| 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 |
2
English, Polish |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
None
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | Wikidot | giewiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
http://appengine.google.com [[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
+++ headline level 3 |
!Headline |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold text** |
''Bald'' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
//italic text// |
//Italy// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
__underlined text__ |
__Undertow__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
{{monospaced text}} |
{{{Courier}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strikethrough text-- |
--Sorry-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
256^^2^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
Sub~~script~~ |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[image src="..."]] |
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>> (Args: file [alignment] [width%]) |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
= Centered line |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* One * Two |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
# One # Two |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
: item : description |
; term : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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