DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. Friki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.2
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2004-05-13 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
private users and small teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Any that can run or call Java
Other Requirements
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Friki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
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:wiki.png]]
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
:        indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* first
* second
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. first
1. second
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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