Hatta vs. ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
1.6.6
2.67
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.7.3
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2026-07-26 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2026-07-26 (4 days ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Mercurial
none
Datastorage Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4693 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Hatta ikiwiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[internal]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
n/a
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
n/a
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
n/a
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
n/a
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
n/a
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
n/a
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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