CanvasWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.2.101
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
System Requirements CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
none
various opt. helpers
Datastorage CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Yes
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Other
Access, SQL Server
None
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Links CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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