Companies Using DokuWiki

Mostly small software and IT firms, clubs, schools and hackerspaces, on a wiki or docs subdomain. 66.97% of matched companies have 1 to 10 employees, and Software Development (26.7%) and IT Services (23.56%) lead the industries. Larger users include Analog Devices on wiki.analog.com, CESNET, Daz 3D and Meinberg, all of which served DokuWiki when we checked on 6 November 2026.

Our November 2026 crawl counts 1,688 domains running DokuWiki after removing 10 for-sale and gambling pages, and 521 match a company. They are domains, not customers: DokuWiki is free software. Since tracking began on 16 March 2026, 137 domains dropped it from every hostname. In a random 40 we checked on 6 November, 35 served it.

DokuWiki holds 0.91% of Documentation & Knowledge Base at TechnologyChecker.io, 12th of 70 rows, on 1,688 cleaned domains. Zendesk's help centres take 61.71% and Foxit 5.11%, so the share compares unlike products. Among wiki and docs engines it sits behind MediaWiki (6,487 domains), Docusaurus, GitBook and MkDocs, and ahead of Sphinx (1,356).

The like-for-like choice is MediaWiki, another self-hosted PHP wiki, with 6,487 domains in our crawl; 6 domains moved from DokuWiki to it since 16 March 2026. Teams writing product docs also use static site generators such as Docusaurus (6,424 domains) and MkDocs (2,405), or a hosted service such as GitBook (6,309).

Germany, with 158 of the 521 companies we matched, well ahead of the United States (87), France (30), the United Kingdom (26) and the Netherlands (19). Germany, Switzerland and Austria together hold 181, about a third of the matched list. Most of the rest is Western Europe, with Brazil, Poland and India at 9 each.

Small ones. 66.97% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees and 19.68% have 11 to 50. Only 6 have more than 1,000 staff, and those run DokuWiki on one subdomain for documentation, as Analog Devices does on wiki.analog.com.

Mostly established. Of matched companies with a founding year, 37.12% started in the 2010s, 22.27% in the 2000s and 16.16% in the 1990s, while only 9.17% were founded in the 2020s. 15.28% predate 1990, a group that includes research institutes, a county office and engineering firms keeping documentation on a wiki.

On our data: a software or IT firm with 1 to 10 staff, in Germany, the US or France, founded in the 2010s, running DokuWiki on a wiki., docs. or kb. subdomain for product docs or an internal knowledge base, on Apache or Nginx. A second profile is clubs, schools and hackerspaces using it as their community wiki.

Documentation and community wikis. In our random sample of 40 domains, the live installs were product manuals, knowledge bases, school and club wikis, hackerspace wikis and personal notes. Among the 50 companies we list, 49 run it on a subdomain such as wiki., docs., kb. or help., which points to documentation kept apart from the main website.

Yes. DokuWiki's download page says it is available free of charge under the GNU General Public License Version 2. The current stable release is 2026-07-14c "Mort", published on GitHub on 2 September 2026, and the older 2025-05-14b "Librarian" line is still offered. The same page notes that hosting partners offer DokuWiki pre-installed.

No. DokuWiki's default configuration stores everything as files in a data folder, with pages under data/pages, instead of in a database. You can see it on live sites, where the page footer names the file, such as start.txt. MediaWiki is the opposite: its installation manual says it needs a database server to store pages and data.

It depends mostly on whether the install is kept current. DokuWiki ships point releases on its stable line: "Mort" had three on GitHub, dated 22 July, 11 August and 2 September 2026. In our 6 November sample, 1 of 40 domains returned a PHP fatal error from wiki code too old for its server's PHP, the clearest sign of an install nobody maintains.

Both are free PHP wikis. DokuWiki stores pages as files and needs no database, while MediaWiki, per its installation manual, needs a database server. On our data MediaWiki is larger, 6,487 domains against DokuWiki's 1,688, and 6 domains moved from DokuWiki to MediaWiki since 16 March 2026, 3 of them in the last 30 days.