| General Features | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.30.0
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
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2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
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2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
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2026-06-03 (9 days ago)
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| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Ruby's
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GPL 2
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
general, education
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
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none
|
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| Datastorage | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
None
|
No
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
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| Development/Support | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
506 ⭐
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4633 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| 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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
N/A |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
Plugin |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
*** |
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