WikkaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.4.2
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
All
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
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
Patch
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Patch
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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 1.1
* item 2
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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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remove WikkaWiki remove PmWiki remove DokuWiki