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DokuWiki vs An Otter Wiki
The same facts for both, read from GitHub every night, and the relation a person reviewed.
| Fact | DokuWiki | An Otter Wiki |
|---|---|---|
| Language | PHP | Python |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 | MIT |
| Stars | 4.7k | 1.6k |
| Latest | release-2026-07-14c | v2.25.0 |
| Last push | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-06 |
| Release cadence | about 21 days between releases | about 17 days between releases |
| Active contributors | 11 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days | 7 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days |
| Flags | none | none |
How they relate
Both replace Confluence. Alternatives to Confluence →
PartialDokuWikiA wiki stored as plain text files with no database, namespaces, access control lists and plugins; no real-time co-editing.
PartialAn Otter WikiA Markdown wiki whose pages are kept in a git repository, with page history and user permissions; no real-time co-editing.
DokuWiki
- release-2026-07-14c2026-09-02DokuWiki 2026-07-14c "Mort" [57.3]
- release-2026-07-14b2026-08-11DokuWiki 2026-07-14b "Mort" [57.2]
- release-2026-07-14a2026-07-22DokuWiki 2026-07-14a "Mort" [57.1]
- release-2026-07-142026-07-14DokuWiki 2026-07-14 "Mort" [57]
- release-2025-05-14b2025-09-09DokuWiki 2025-05-14b "Librarian" [56.2]
An Otter Wiki
- v2.25.02026-10-03Show date, author and commit message of both compared revisions on the diff page in a compact table, and color changed…
- v2.24.12026-09-08Check style attributes for dangerous CSS in clean_html: url() targets are held to the same protocol allowlist as href a…
- v2.24.02026-08-29Sanitize custom menu icons through clean_html() with the renderer's HTML allowlist, so allowlisted tags are no longer s…
- v2.23.02026-08-05Escape user-controlled URLs in the ImageFrame and Video embeddings, which allowed stored XSS via attribute breakout. Th…
- v2.22.22026-08-02v2.22.2 Security Update
DokuWiki
unsigned The latest release, release-2026-07-14c, carries no signature GitHub could verify.
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An Otter Wiki
unsigned The latest release, v2.25.0, carries no signature GitHub could verify.
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