WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
All
Everyone
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
All
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Node.js
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Other
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
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.
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
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
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[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]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript Text~
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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