DokuWiki vs. Git-Wiki vs. PmWiki

General Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
MIT
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby
PHP
Data Storage
Files
RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Private, Public
All
System Requirements DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
Datastorage DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
Git
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Plugin system, backends can be added
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
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
# 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 PmWiki
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 PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
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
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
XML based, Javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Git-Wiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[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]]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{Image.png}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
%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
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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