Friki vs. ProntoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.1.1
1.0.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2025-12-05 (today)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Clay Alberty
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
None
Security/Anti-Spam Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
0
1
English
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
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Optional
Yes
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Extras Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Friki ProntoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
{title|url}
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
__under__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
monospace
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
Plugin
Text Indentation
:        indented
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
+
++
+++
++++
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
#
##
###
####
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
title:        description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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