WikyBlog vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Version
1.5.4
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
Last Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Internet Communities
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Anyone
System Requirements WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
MySQL
various opt. helpers
Datastorage WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Links WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
No
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove WikyBlog remove DokuWiki remove PhpWiki remove ikiwiki