WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Foswiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.1.7
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2007-03-28 (17 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
Public Domain
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
$0
Development status
Mature
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
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, *BSD
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
None
diffs
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
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
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki Wala Wiki Foswiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= headline =
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bolded'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italicized''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
monospaced.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
:Block-quoted text.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
# One
# Two
# Three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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