| General Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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1.32.2
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0.30.0
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R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
|
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
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2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
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| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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GPL
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Ruby's
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Public Domain (!)
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
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general, education
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small + medium sites, development teams
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
any
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
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Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
None
|
No
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
no
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
3582 ⭐
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N/A
|
478 ⭐
|
N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| 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
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| 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 |
1
English |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Links | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
None
|
optional
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Instiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
_italic_, *italic* |
''ialic text'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
optional or via css |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`monospace` |
==monospaced text== |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
optional or via css |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript text^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
optional or via css |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
[link to the image.jpg] |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
optional or via css |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
: indented line |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
; term : definition |
term : definition |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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