DokuWiki Features

DokuWiki has many features, and many more can be added through plugins. The list below should give you a first overview on what is available in DokuWiki. A big list of features is also available in the WikiMatrix where you can compare DokuWiki's features with those of other engines.

Feel free to test Dokuwiki on the playground. If you miss a feature not available, just put a bounty out on it.

• Simple syntax
• Unlimited page revisions
• Recent changes
• Coloured side by side diff support
• Uploading and embedding of images and other media
• Customizable Interwiki link
• Optional CamelCase support
• Content can be categorized in namespaces, easily browsable through an automatic index

• Section Editing allows editing of small parts of a page
• Quickbuttons and accesskeys make editing easy for beginners and professionals
• Easy navigation through breadcrumbs
• Automatic table of contents generation
• Locking to avoid edit conflicts

• Simple support for read only pages
• Extended Access Control Lists
• Spam blacklist
• Delayed Indexing
• Mailencryption and rel=nofollow support

• Support for over 30 languages
• Full UTF-8 support
• Romanization support for nicer URLs
• Optional automatic plural linking for English wikis..

• Index-based fast fulltext search
• Pagecaching for quicker rendering
• Ajax-based quicksearch for pagenames

• Layout customizable through templates
• Features can be extended through plugins (over 100 already available)

• No database required, uses plain text files
• Syndication of recent changes as RSS or ATOM feeds
• Authentication Backends for integrating with LDAP, MySQL, Postgres and others
• Open Source and well documented source code