| General Features | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.3.0.0
|
0.5.0
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-08-02 (13 years ago)
|
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-08-29 (13 years ago)
|
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
|
| Author |
J.W. Davidson
|
Andreas Gohr
|
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache License 2.0
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
C#
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small organization to enterprise
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS7 or IIS8
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
|
| Other Requirements |
IronPython
|
||
| Datastorage | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
MS Membership and Roles
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
4709 ⭐
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| Common Features | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
1
French |
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
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
IronPython
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Usability | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | LynxWiki | WikiNi | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx) |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| 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]] |
| Headlines |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 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''' |
** ** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
// // |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
+underlined+ |
__ __ |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
## ## |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
@@ @@ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
superscript^234^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
water: H~2~O |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
N/A |
|
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
[space] level 1 [space][space] level 2 [space][space][...] level X |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
- - - |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
1) 1) 1) |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
N/A |
|
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove LynxWiki | remove WikiNi | remove DokuWiki |