Git-Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Instiki vs. WikiNi vs. alphawiki

General Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
0.30.0
0.5.0
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2007-04-11 (16 years ago)
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (1 year ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL 2
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
general, education
End Users/Desktop, Education
private users, small teams
System Requirements Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Operating System
*nix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
probably every OS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Other
Git
None
No
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
None
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
No
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
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
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
1
French
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional, PHP
Optional
None
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Usability Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Output Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
No
No
Extras Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Instiki WikiNi alphawiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[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]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[another site](http://example.com)
[[ ]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
====== 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######
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
** **
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_, *italic*
// //
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__ __
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospace`
## ##
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
@@ @@
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
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'}
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
-
-
-
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1)
1)
1)
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
term
: definition
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
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{hr}
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