LynxWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
1.3.0.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
Last Release Date
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
C#
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
System Requirements LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
IronPython
Datastorage LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
None
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4536 ⭐
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
IronPython
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
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
No
Statistics LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
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 LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples LynxWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
N/A
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove LynxWiki remove DokuWiki remove ikiwiki