Instiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Hatta vs. DokuWiki vs. Wicked

General Features Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Version
0.30.0
1.32.2
5.1.21
1.6.6
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
Andreas Gohr
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
GPL 2
GPL 2
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
A common browser
Mercurial
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
None
None
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
optional extensions available
n/a
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Links Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
None
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Optional
JavaScript
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Usability Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Instiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta DokuWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
n/a
__underlined__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{verbatim}}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
n/a
Plugin
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
n/a
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
term
: definition
; term : definition
; term
: description
n/a
Plugin
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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