Papyrs vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.32
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
Author
Stunf BV
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Hosting Features Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
161061273600
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
none
none
Datastorage Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Papyrs DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
## Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*italic*
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`mono`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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