ProntoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. UseMod

General Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Version
1.0.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2026-06-12 (today)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Andreas Gohr
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
C#
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4633 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
none
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Usability ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Extras ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
{title|url}
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<del>strikethrough</del>
N/A
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
Plugin
N/A
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
: indented
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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