LionWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. Wikepage vs. Oddmuse

General Features LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Version
3.2.4
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.30.0
2008.1
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2008-10-13 (15 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2008-10-24 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL 2
Ruby's
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
Private users, small groups
family people, hackers
System Requirements LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Operating System
All PHP supported
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Platform Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Server Independent
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
n/a
Writable data directory
Datastorage LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
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
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
None
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
Optional, PHP
None
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Output LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
Filenames only
Extras LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
No
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples LionWiki DokuWiki Instiki Wikepage Oddmuse
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
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://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
''Italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
'__underline__'
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__Underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospace`
With a space in front of the text
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
n/a
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
n/a
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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