DokuWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.3.0.0
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
J.W. Davidson
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
small organization to enterprise
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
IIS7 or IIS8
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
IronPython
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
MS Membership and Roles
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4475 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
1
English
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
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
IronPython
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
+underlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
water: H~2~O
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
N/A
{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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