| General Features | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5.299
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v21.12.1
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1.32.2
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
|
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
|
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Nicolas Giard
|
Dan Brown
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Andreas Gohr
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| License |
AGPL-v3
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MIT
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GPL
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GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
Javascript
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PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Everyone
|
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
All
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
All
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Node.js
|
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
MariaDB
|
No
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Yes
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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
19117 ⭐
|
10374 ⭐
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
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| Common Features | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
JS, CSS
|
None
|
Optional
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Wiki.js | BookStack | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**Bold Text** |
|
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*Italic Text* |
|
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
`Monospace Code` |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript Text^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript Text~ |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
 |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
<center>Centered</center> |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
: indented line |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
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---- |
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| remove Wiki.js | remove BookStack | remove MediaWiki | remove DokuWiki |