DokuWiki har mange egenskaper og flere kan tilføyes med plugins. Nedenforstående liste kan gi et førsteinntrykk av hva som er tilgjengelig i DokuWiki. En omfattende liste av egenskaper kan finnes på WikiMatrix hvor man kan sammenligne forskellige DokuWikiers egenskaper med hverandre.

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• 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
• Optional spell checker
• 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