CanvasWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Hatta

General Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Version
1.2.101
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
6.3.0
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
GPL 2
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
mod_rewrite (optional)
Mercurial
Datastorage CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Other
Access, SQL Server
None
MariaDB
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
n/a
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4709 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Usability CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
n/a
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


n/a
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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