| General Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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v21.12.1
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1.32.2
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6.2.0
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
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2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
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2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
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2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
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| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
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2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
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2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
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| Author |
Andreas Gohr
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Dan Brown
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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WackoWiki Team
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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MIT
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GPL
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BSD
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database
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Database
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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 |
personal, small to medium companies
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Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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OS Independent
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
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Any with PHP support
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run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
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| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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none
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mod_rewrite (optional)
|
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| Datastorage | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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Yes
|
No
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| Oracle |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
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No
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No
|
No
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| Other |
None
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MariaDB
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No
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MariaDB
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| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Yes
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LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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| Host Blocking |
Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Optional
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| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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Optional
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
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| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
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No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
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No
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No
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| Development/Support | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
4538 ⭐
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18237 ⭐
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N/A
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55 ⭐
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
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, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
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| Categories |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
None
|
Optional
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| 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 ====== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
|
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
|
: indented line |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
|
; term : definition |
{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 DokuWiki | remove BookStack | remove MediaWiki | remove WackoWiki |