Wikidot vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
Hosting Features Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Datastorage Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Yes
Other
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4563 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wikidot 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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
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 Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
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 Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
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 Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[[image src="..."]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
= Centered line
Plugin
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
- 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
: item : description
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Wikidot remove DokuWiki remove ikiwiki