bLADE Wiki vs. ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Version
3.4.9
2.67
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2008-11-09 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Andreas Gohr
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
C#
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
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
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
42 ⭐
Common Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional, PHP
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Output bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Patch
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[internal]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[link text](http://example.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
+Heading
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
''monospace''
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</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}}
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
N/A
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Plugin
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
___
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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