Wiki CSharp .NET vs. wxWikiServer vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
0.4.2
1.5.11c
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2009-12-30 (14 years ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (14 years ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Ryan Norton
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
C++
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
End users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
None
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
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
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
no
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET wxWikiServer DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold*
''' bold text '''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=Italic=
'' italic text ''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
_Underline_
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
start line with blank space.
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[$Image file$]
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
] centred text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* one
* two
* two.1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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