ProntoWiki vs. Git-Wiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Version
1.0.1
1.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2026-07-27 (today)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
MIT
GPL 2
Programming Language
C#
Ruby
PHP
Data Storage
Database
RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows
*nix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Ruby
Datastorage ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Yes
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Git
None
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Plugin system, backends can be added
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Plugin
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
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
Czech, German, English, 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
No
Optional
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Categories
Optional
No
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
Links ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Extras ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki Git-Wiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
{title|url}
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__under__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
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
{{Image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
Plugin
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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