WikkaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.4.2
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
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)
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
System Requirements WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
No
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
4475 ⭐
87 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
0
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional
Optional, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Output WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
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 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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