| General Features | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
v21.12.1
|
3.2
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
| Last Release Date |
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
|
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
|
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Dan Brown
|
Hallo Welt! GmbH
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
|
GPLv3
|
GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
Linux, Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
|
|
| Datastorage | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Yes
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
10374 ⭐
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
| Common Features | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Java Script
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | BookStack | BlueSpice MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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