DokuWiki vs. Drupal Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki

General Features DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
8.26
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-21 (9 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://kontextwork.de
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Commercial
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Different licences
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Hosting Features DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, nginx
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
none
None
none
Datastorage DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
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
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
2
German, English
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
1
English
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
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Widgets
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
: indented line
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term : definition
term:: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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