🆚 DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki

📈 MediaWiki is five times more popular than DokuWiki.
🌎 MediaWiki is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 DokuWiki is more popular in the Czech Republic, South Africa, and Estonia.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

DokuWiki

MediaWiki

Type

Wiki software

About

DokuWiki is open-source, PHP-based wiki software that does not require a database.

It provides a simple markup syntax, version history, full-text search, authentication through LDAP and Active Directory, support for more than 50 languages, and a large extension ecosystem with plugins and templates.

MediaWiki is an open-source wiki software written in PHP and originally developed for Wikipedia, designed for collaborative content creation, version control, and large-scale knowledge management.

It supports MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases, uses caching and replication for high-traffic environments, provides a wikitext parser and full revision history with rollback, and can be extended with over 2,000 extensions.

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

dokuwiki.org #178,716

mediawiki.org #2,098

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

MediaWiki technology is 5 times more popular than DokuWiki.

Total websites

Market share

Wiki Software

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

MediaWiki is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while DokuWiki is more popular in the Czech Republic, South Africa, and Estonia.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Russia

France

Netherlands

Canada

Japan

Italy

Switzerland

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Wiki Software category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Wiki Software category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Wiki Software category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Wiki Software category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Wiki Software category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Wiki Software category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Wiki Software category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

MediaWiki is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, games, and education and reference, while DokuWiki is more commonly used on Internet services sites.

Blogs/Wiki

Games

Education/Reference

Software/Hardware

Business

Entertainment

Marketing/Merchandising

Technical/Business Forums

Technical Information

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#18,011

#71,772

#73,099

#129,953

#130,964

Name

Rank

#310

#1,071

#1,317