| General Features | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.30.0
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0.5.0
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1.2.101
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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| Last Release Date |
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
|
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
|
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
|
2008-09-01 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (6 months ago)
|
| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Raymond Camden
|
Andreas Gohr
|
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Ruby's
|
GPL
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Apache
|
GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
ColdFusion
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
general, education
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Mildly technical
|
personal, small to medium companies
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| System Requirements | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
|
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
ColdFusion MX
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||
| Datastorage | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
Access, SQL Server
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|||
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
504 ⭐
|
N/A
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N/A
|
4726 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
1
French |
0
|
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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
||
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | WikiNi | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx) |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
[[ ]] |
|
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
====== ====== level 1 ===== ===== level 2 ==== ==== level 3 === === level 4 == == level 5 |
|
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
** ** |
|
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
// // |
|
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
__ __ |
|
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
## ## |
|
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
@@ @@ |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
|
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
|
|
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
[space] level 1 [space][space] level 2 [space][space][...] level X |
|
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
- - - |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
1) 1) 1) |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
|
|
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
*** |
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|
---- |
| remove Instiki | remove WikiNi | remove CanvasWiki | remove DokuWiki |