MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wicked

General Features MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Version
1.32.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (14 days ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
none
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
None
None
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
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
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
Optional, PHP
No
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Plugin
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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