Sputnik vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
8.08.13
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.67
Last Release Date
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Lua
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
System Requirements Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
Datastorage Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
Git
None
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4606 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
# Sputnik
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Plugin
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
- - -
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Sputnik remove DokuWiki remove ikiwiki