WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
{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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