PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.3.32
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
6.1.24
Last Release Date
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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