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About DokuWiki

The interesting thing about DokuWiki is not what it does but how long it stays where it was put. A wiki that keeps its pages as plain text files on disk has no database to migrate, no upgrade script that can fail loudly, and nothing that breaks when a hosting account is left alone. An install goes up in an afternoon, does its job, and then simply sits there.

The version evidence in our data shows that pattern directly. Across installs where a version is readable we distinguish 5 separate releases, and a stamp that recurs across them is Release 2009-12-25, a release from an earlier era of the project. A wiki still reporting an old release is not abandoned in the sense of being unused. Internal documentation, a lab notebook, a club's rules page or a product's install notes can serve their readers perfectly well while nobody logs into the admin panel for years.

For a security researcher or an asset-inventory team, that inertia is the whole point. Old PHP applications on shared hosting are where unpatched issues live longest, and the population of stale wikis cannot be enumerated by asking a vendor, because there is no vendor to ask. The software is GPL v2 and has been distributed that way since 2004, so every install is a private copy answering to nobody's telemetry.

As of October 2026 we detect the wiki on 1,569 sites. A per-domain lookup answers whether one host runs it. A downloadable list answers what only a population can answer: how many installs report a readable version at all, how the spread of versions moves between exports, which hosting providers carry clusters of them, and which domains keep a documentation wiki next to a production application. Security vendors, hosting companies planning migration offers and researchers studying software ageing all want the same shape of file.

Two honest limits belong on the number. Detection depends on the wiki exposing a recognisable page or asset, and a heavily themed or access-controlled instance can hide from a crawler entirely, so the count is a floor. Version reporting is thinner still, because an administrator can strip generator information while leaving the software untouched, which means the version breakdown describes the installs that talk about themselves rather than every install that exists.