DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.11
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
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
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4629 ⭐
118 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | 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.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
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