Wikepage vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WikiNi vs. Instiki

General Features Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Version
2008.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
0.5.0
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-13 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2007-04-11 (16 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-24 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
End Users/Desktop, Education
general, education
System Requirements Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Operating System
Platform Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Server Independent
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
n/a
Writable data directory
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
Common Features Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
French
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
None
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Usability Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Output Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikepage DokuWiki Oddmuse WikiNi Instiki
Internal Link
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
[[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
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
[[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
[[ ]]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
**Bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
** **
**bold**
Italics Format
''Italic''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
// //
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
__Underline__
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__ __
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
With a space in front of the text
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
## ##
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
@@ @@
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
n/a
Plugin
no example known
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
n/a
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
-
-
-
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1)
1)
1)
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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