LionWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
3.2.4
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
personal, small to medium companies
Any
All
System Requirements LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
All PHP supported
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples LionWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
'__underline__'
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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