SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. DokuWiki vs. Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.2
2.3.33
3.2
Last Release Date
2017-08-04 (6 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-20 (14 days ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-21 (13 days ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
Andreas Gohr
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Hallo Welt! GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
per server
GPL 2
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL2+
GPLv3
Programming Language
.NET - C#
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
MS SQL Server
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
No
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
0
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, 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
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
javascript
Optional, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Java Script
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''Bold text'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''Italicized text''
//italics//
_italics_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined text</u>
__underlined__
+underline+
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text=
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<div align="right">
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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