| General Features | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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0.30.0
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Wikia, Inc.
|
Andreas Gohr
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
GPL 2
|
Ruby's
|
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
PHP
|
Ruby on Rails
|
| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
All users
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
general, education
|
| Hosting Features | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
none
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
|
| Datastorage | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
None
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
478 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
Optional, PHP
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikia | DokuWiki | Instiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
| External Link |
|
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
| Headlines |
|
====== 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** |
| Italics Format |
|
//italics// |
_italic_, *italic* |
| Underline Format |
|
__underlined__ |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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