DokuWiki vs. Git-Wiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
MIT
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby
PHP
Data Storage
Files
RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Private, Public
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
Datastorage DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
None
Git
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Plugin system, backends can be added
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
242 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
Optional
No
Optional
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
XML based, Javascript
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Output DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{Image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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