smasi vs. DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Version
8.3
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
0.30.0
1.4.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2026-07-09 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-10 (1 month ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
2S-Software AG
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Wikka Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Freemium
GPL 2
Ruby's
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Flutter
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
USD 18 (one-time in-app purchase)
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, tradespeople, worldbuild-creators, story-writers
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Any
System Requirements smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Android, iOS, macOS, or Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any (platform-independent)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
No server installation required
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Available securely from all major app stores
Ruby 2.0-2.6
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4707 ⭐
508 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
No
Patch
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Links smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Syntax Features smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Statistics smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Patch
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
No
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples smasi DokuWiki Instiki WikkaWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
''monospace''
`monospace`
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
++Strike through text++
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>below</sub>
Images
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# list
Definition Lists
Plugin
term
: definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
Directly in the WYSIWYG editor
----
***
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