DokuWiki Features

DokuWiki has many features, and many more can be added through the free plugin downloads. The list below should give you a first overview of what is available in DokuWiki.

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

A big list of features is also available in the WikiMatrix where you can compare DokuWiki's features with those of other engines and systems.

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

Configuring DokuWiki

• Section Editing allows editing of small parts of a page
• Toolbar 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
• Mail address obfuscation and rel=nofollow support

• Support for over 50 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-enhanced interface

• Layout customizable through templates (over 70 already available)
• Features can be extended through plugins (over 600 already available)
• Great support from the community if you ever need help

• 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…