DokuWiki Features

DokuWiki has many features but all of them are easy to learn. 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 both beginners and professionals
• Easy navigation through breadcrumbs
• Automatic table of contents generation
• Locking to avoid edit conflicts
• Automatic save to avoid content lost during editing

• 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 80 already available)
• Features can be extended through plugins (over 750 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…
• and many more …