| General Features | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
v21.12.1
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26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
|
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
|
2024-04-01 (28 days ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Dan Brown
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
Andreas Gohr
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
MIT
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LGPL
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GPL 2
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database
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Files
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
|
personal, small to medium companies
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Works on standard shared hosting
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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None
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none
|
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| Datastorage | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
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No
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Yes
|
No
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
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No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
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No
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No
|
No
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| Other |
MariaDB
|
MariaDB
|
None
|
No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Authentication Backends |
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
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SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
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| Development/Support | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
10374 ⭐
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N/A
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3582 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 |
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, 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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | BookStack | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
|
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
|
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
|
__bold__ |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
===underline=== |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
-+monospace+- |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--strike-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
::centered text:: |
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
leading spaces, if activated. |
N/A |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
;term:definition |
Plugin |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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