bLADE Wiki vs. ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Version
3.4.9
2.67
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2008-11-09 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
C#
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Anyone
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
Datastorage bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
None
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Output bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[internal]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
+Heading
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold text*
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
=italic text=
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
Underline Format
_underlined text_
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

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