DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
8.26
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2023-05-31 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Different licences
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Enterprise
Hosting Features DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
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 PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
Widgets
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki Drupal Wiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
----
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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