DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.30.0
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Ruby's
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Data Storage
Files
Database
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
Private, Public
System Requirements DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Ruby
Datastorage DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Git
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
478 ⭐
242 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
No
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
1
English
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Optional
No
No
Comments
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Links DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Instiki Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<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}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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