GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Writable data directory
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
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67 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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