DokuWiki vs. Drupal Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
8.26
1.32.2
2.3.33
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (10 days ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (9 days ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://kontextwork.de
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Commercial
GPL
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Different licences
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Software development teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
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 PmWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, nginx
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
none
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
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
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
# 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 PmWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
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 PmWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Widgets
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Drupal Wiki MediaWiki PmWiki TracWiki
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
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]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Plugin
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
%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
--> 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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered 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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
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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