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DOKUWIKI vs TXT

DOKUWIKI vs TXT

A detailed comparison of DokuWiki Markup and Plain Text — file size, quality, compatibility, and which format to choose for your workflow.

DOKUWIKI

DokuWiki Markup

Documents & Text

DokuWiki markup is the wiki syntax used by the DokuWiki engine, a popular flat-file wiki that requires no database. Its syntax is designed for simplicity, storing all content as plain text files with intuitive formatting conventions.

About DOKUWIKI files
TXT

Plain Text

Documents & Text

TXT files contain unformatted plain text with no styling, images, or layout information. They are universally readable by any device and operating system, making them the simplest document format.

About TXT files

Strengths Comparison

DOKUWIKI Strengths

  • No database — just flat files.
  • Easy syntax.
  • Git-friendly.
  • Simple self-hosting.

TXT Strengths

  • Universally readable — every operating system, every editor, every programming language.
  • Zero metadata overhead: the file size equals the character count (for ASCII).
  • Safe to diff, grep, version-control, and pipe through command-line tools.
  • Immune to format obsolescence: a text file from 1970 still opens today.
  • Tiny footprint for structured data like logs or configuration.

Limitations

DOKUWIKI Limitations

  • Scales poorly past ~10 000 pages.
  • Smaller community than MediaWiki.
  • Limited standardization.

TXT Limitations

  • No styling, images, or embedded structure — just characters.
  • Character encoding ambiguity (ISO-8859-1 vs UTF-8 vs Windows-1252) causes "mojibake".
  • Line-ending differences between OSes still cause subtle bugs today.
  • No way to carry hyperlinks, tables, or formatting without a convention on top (like Markdown).

Technical Specifications

Specification DOKUWIKI TXT
MIME type text/x-dokuwiki text/plain
Extension .dokuwiki, .txt (stored)
Native engine DokuWiki (PHP)
Common encodings UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252
Line endings LF (Unix), CRLF (Windows), CR (classic Mac)
Max file size Limited only by filesystem (no format-level limit)
Structure None — flat sequence of characters

Typical File Sizes

DOKUWIKI

  • Typical wiki page 2-50 KB

TXT

  • Short note < 1 KB
  • README file 2–20 KB
  • Full novel (~90,000 words) 500 KB – 1 MB
  • Server log file (daily) 10 MB – 1 GB

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Frequently Asked Questions

DOKUWIKI (DokuWiki Markup) is a document format used to store paginated text, with optional formatting, tables, images, hyperlinks, headers and footers. It sits in the documents & text family and is typically associated with a specific office suite or publishing pipeline that defined the format and ships the canonical reader.

TXT (Plain Text) is a document format used to store paginated text, with optional formatting, tables, images, hyperlinks, headers and footers. It sits in the documents & text family and is typically associated with a specific office suite or publishing pipeline that defined the format and ships the canonical reader.

Modern office suites — Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, Apple Pages — open most DOKUWIKI files with reasonable fidelity. If your installed software does not support DOKUWIKI, convert to DOCX or PDF first using KaijuConverter; both open in virtually every reader, including free online viewers.

Modern office suites — Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, Apple Pages — open most TXT files with reasonable fidelity. If your installed software does not support TXT, convert to DOCX or PDF first using KaijuConverter; both open in virtually every reader, including free online viewers.

Upload the DOKUWIKI to KaijuConverter and pick DOCX, PDF, ODT, RTF, HTML, Markdown, or plain text. Our pipeline runs LibreOffice headlessly plus pandoc for text formats — the same engines behind professional document pipelines. Styles, tables, images, and hyperlinks survive the conversion intact.

Yes, to a high degree. Standard fonts, headings, lists, tables, images, hyperlinks and page structure transfer cleanly. Custom fonts substitute to the closest match if not embedded; obscure layout features unique to DOKUWIKI (frames, legacy macros) may flatten to static content in the target format.