| General Features | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5.299
|
0.30.0
|
0.4.8
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
|
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
|
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
|
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
|
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Nicolas Giard
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Pitt Murmann
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
AGPL-v3
|
Ruby's
|
GPLv3
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
Javascript
|
Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
Database
|
Database, Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
none
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Everyone
|
general, education
|
Medium-sized sites
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
All
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
Any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
All
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Any
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Node.js
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
|
|
| Datastorage | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RCS |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
Proprietary
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
19117 ⭐
|
478 ⭐
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
No
|
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
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 |
1
English |
2
German, 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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
JS, CSS
|
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Wiki.js | Instiki | PageWork | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
[another site](http://example.com) |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
= L1 = == L2 == === L3 === ==== L4 ==== ===== L5 ===== = L1 == L2 === L3 ==== L4 ===== L5 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**Bold Text** |
**bold** |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*Italic Text* |
_italic_, *italic* |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
This is __underlined__. |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
`Monospace Code` |
`monospace` |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
This is --not-- important. |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript Text^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript Text~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
 |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}} |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}} |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
|
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# one # two ## two alpha ## two beta # three |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
term : definition |
: term : definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
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