DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.11
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4629 ⭐
118 ⭐
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
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
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
No
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki WackoWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
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}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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