Git-Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. Hatta

General Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.30.0
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL 2
Ruby's
GPL v2
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Python
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
System Requirements Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Operating System
*nix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Ruby
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Mercurial
Datastorage Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
Git
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
n/a
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
3582 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Preview
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
No
Optional
No
No
Comments
No
Plugin
No
No
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
No
Links Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional, PHP
None
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki DokuWiki Instiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
n/a
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
`monospace`
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

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