DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
no
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
4471 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
Yes
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Optional
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Optional
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ErfurtWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''ialic text''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
optional or via css
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
optional or via css
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
{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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