Dokuwiki
Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.
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Still maintained? Yes: 49 commits in the last 90 days, latest release release-2026-07-14c (Sep 2026).
Also an alternative to Confluence.
At a glance
Dokuwiki quick facts
- Health score
- 85/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 4,734
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- release-2026-07-14c, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
Top alternatives to Dokuwiki
Full rankings: Confluence alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "and the DokuWiki Community See COPYING and file headers for license info."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Dokuwiki scores 85/100, #11 of 24 in Wikis: 49 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (release-2026-07-14c, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 4,734 stars add 14.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
49 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
release-2026-07-14c released 2 months ago
- Stars 14.7 / 20
4.7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 49
- Last 90 days
- 440
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 24 tools in Wikis by health , between TiddlyWiki (#10) and W (#12) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | release-2026-07-14c · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 4,734 |
| Open issues | 395 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | dokuwiki/dokuwiki ↗ |
Dokuwiki vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Dokuwiki (Wikis), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outline | 98 | 41k | BUSL-1.1 | today |
| Wiki.js | 98 | 29k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| docmost Community Edition | 97 | 22k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| XWiki | 92 | 1.3k | LGPL-2.1 | today |
| BookStack | 90 | 304 | MIT | 12 days ago |
| Dokuwiki (this tool) | 85 | 4.7k | GPL-2.0 | 1 month ago |
Dokuwiki: common questions
What does Dokuwiki replace?
Repoly lists Dokuwiki as an open-source alternative to Confluence. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Dokuwiki stands against the others.
Is Dokuwiki still maintained?
Dokuwiki had 49 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, release-2026-07-14c, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.