| General Features | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.67
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.0.045
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Helmut Leitner
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL 2
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Anyone
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
|
| System Requirements | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Unix / Linux
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Any, or none
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
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| Other Requirements |
none
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| Datastorage | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
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| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
None
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4693 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ikiwiki | DokuWiki | ProWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[internal]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
| External Link |
[link text](http://example.org) |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
| Headlines |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
| Bold Format |
**bold** __bold__ |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
| Superscript Format |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>text</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>text</sub> |
| Images |
  |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
: indented line :: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
| Numbered Lists |
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 |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
| Definition Lists |
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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