Hatta vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. WikiNi

General Features Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Version
1.6.6
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.67
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Mercurial
Datastorage Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
None
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
No
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4707 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
1
English
1
French
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Usability Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Hatta DokuWiki ikiwiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
[[ ]]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
** **
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
// //
Underline Format
n/a
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__ __
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
## ##
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
@@ @@
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
n/a
Plugin
Text Indentation
n/a
N/A
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
n/a
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
n/a
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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