Friki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Version
2.1.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2004-05-13 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
All
System Requirements Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
none
Datastorage Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
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
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
0
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
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
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Friki DokuWiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
[[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]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
monospace
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
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
:        indented
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
title:        description
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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