diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DokuWiki.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DokuWiki.hs
index 78c29c482..010fb2639 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DokuWiki.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/DokuWiki.hs
@@ -528,10 +528,11 @@ tableRows :: PandocMonad m => DWParser m [[(Alignment, B.Blocks)]]
 tableRows = many1 tableRow
 
 tableRow :: PandocMonad m => DWParser m [(Alignment, B.Blocks)]
-tableRow = many1Till tableCell tableRowEnd
+tableRow = tableCellSeparator *> many1 tableCell <* tableRowEnd
 
-tableRowEnd :: PandocMonad m => DWParser m Char
-tableRowEnd = try $ tableCellSeparator <* manyTill spaceChar eol
+-- DokuWiki just ignores stuff after the end of a table row (#11739)
+tableRowEnd :: PandocMonad m => DWParser m ()
+tableRowEnd = void $ manyTill anyChar eol
 
 tableCellSeparator :: PandocMonad m => DWParser m Char
 tableCellSeparator = char '|' <|> char '^'
@@ -542,8 +543,7 @@ tableCell = try $ (second (B.plain . B.trimInlines . mconcat)) <$> cellContent
     cellContent = do
       -- https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax#tables
       -- DokuWiki represents the alignment of cells with two spaces padding.
-      tableCellSeparator
-      cellInline <- manyTill inlineUnconsolidatedWhitespace (lookAhead tableCellSeparator)
+      cellInline <- manyTill inlineUnconsolidatedWhitespace tableCellSeparator
       let left  = [B.space, B.space] `isPrefixOf` cellInline
       let right = [B.space, B.space] `isSuffixOf` cellInline
       let alignment = case (left, right) of
diff --git a/test/command/11739.md b/test/command/11739.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2fca62608
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/11739.md
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+```
+% pandoc -f dokuwiki -t native
+| a | extra stuff
+| b | extra stuff
+after
+^D
+[ Table
+    ( "" , [] , [] )
+    (Caption Nothing [])
+    [ ( AlignDefault , ColWidthDefault ) ]
+    (TableHead ( "" , [] , [] ) [])
+    [ TableBody
+        ( "" , [] , [] )
+        (RowHeadColumns 0)
+        []
+        [ Row
+            ( "" , [] , [] )
+            [ Cell
+                ( "" , [] , [] )
+                AlignDefault
+                (RowSpan 1)
+                (ColSpan 1)
+                [ Plain [ Str "a" ] ]
+            ]
+        , Row
+            ( "" , [] , [] )
+            [ Cell
+                ( "" , [] , [] )
+                AlignDefault
+                (RowSpan 1)
+                (ColSpan 1)
+                [ Plain [ Str "b" ] ]
+            ]
+        ]
+    ]
+    (TableFoot ( "" , [] , [] ) [])
+, Para [ Str "after" ]
+]
+
+```