bLADE Wiki vs. ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Version
3.4.9
2.67
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.4.2
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2008-11-09 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days 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 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Andreas Gohr
Wikka Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
C#
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
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)
All
System Requirements bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional, PHP
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Statistics bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Patch
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Patch
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media and Files bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki ikiwiki DokuWiki WikkaWiki PmWiki
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold text*
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=italic text=
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
_underlined text_
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
''monospace''
##monospaced##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
++Strike through text++
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
'_subscript_'
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"}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
N/A
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
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>""
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
___
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
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