| General Features | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.2
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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1.2.101
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1.6.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
|
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
|
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
Wikka Development Team
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Raymond Camden
|
Elrey Ronald V.
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL 2
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Apache
|
FREE
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
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ColdFusion
|
ASP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
Beta
|
| Intended Audience |
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
|
personal, small to medium companies
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Mildly technical
|
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
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| System Requirements | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Operating System |
any (platform-independent)
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
any server with PHP/MySQL support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS
|
IIS
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
ColdFusion MX
|
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
|
|
| Datastorage | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
No
|
None
|
Access, SQL Server
|
MS Access DB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory (patch)
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
42 ⭐
|
4682 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
||
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
No
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Special Features | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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
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0
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| Email notification |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
||
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
||
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Links | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Page Redirects |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
Optional, PHP
|
||
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Usability | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Access Keys |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Auto Signature |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Recent Visitors |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Output | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
||
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| XML export |
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
|
| Extras | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | WikkaWiki | DokuWiki | CanvasWiki | WikiASP |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
WikiWord |
| External Link |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
==Headline1 ===Headline2 ====Headline3 =====Headline4 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
|
'''BoldFormat'''
{bold}BoldFormat{/b} |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
//italics// |
|
''The quotation'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
__underlined__ |
|
|
| Monospace Format |
##monospaced## |
''monospace'' |
|
<space char here>This is mono |
| Strikethrough Format |
++Strike through text++ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
_This is Strike Through_ |
| Superscript Format |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
|
| Subscript Format |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
|
| Images |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg image:local:icon.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
Plugin |
|
|
| Text Indentation |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
N/A |
|
>Indent 1 >>Indent2 |
| Bulleted Lists |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
* Test * Bullets |
| Numbered Lists |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
|
1. Test Numeer 1. Test Two |
| Definition Lists |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
Plugin |
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| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove WikkaWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove CanvasWiki | remove WikiASP |