iKnow - a tiny wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Version
1.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2011-02-09 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2011-02-11 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
Author
CodeBrewery
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
ASP.Net MVC 3 (C# with Razor view engine)
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone in need of a (really) tiny wiki or a internal knowledge database
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
System Requirements iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 +
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 7.0 +
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
ASP.Net MVC 3, WebMatrix
none
none
Datastorage iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Microsoft SQL Server
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
OpenID
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
Optional
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples iKnow - a tiny wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.google.ch">ExternalLink</a>
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
<h1>Headline</h1>
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>Italic</i>
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%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
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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