DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.11
1.32.2
2.5.8
1.5.1
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
30
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
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
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 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
: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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