| General Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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6.3.0
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0.5.0
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| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
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2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Andreas Gohr
|
WackoWiki Team
|
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
Apache
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GPL 2
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BSD
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
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Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
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personal, small to medium companies
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
OS Independent
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all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
None
|
MariaDB
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
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| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4708 ⭐
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| 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 |
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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 |
1
French |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
actions (PHP)
|
||
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| 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 | WikiNi |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | WikiNi |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx) |
| External Link |
|
[[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** |
** ** |
| Italics Format |
|
//italics// |
//italics// |
// // |
| Underline Format |
|
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
__ __ |
| Monospace Format |
|
''monospace'' |
##monospace## |
## ## |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strikethrough-- |
@@ @@ |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
|
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
|
| Images |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
one two |
[space] level 1 [space][space] level 2 [space][space][...] level X |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
- - - |
| Numbered Lists |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
1) 1) 1) |
| Definition Lists |
|
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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| remove CanvasWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove WackoWiki | remove WikiNi |