DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. PageWork

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
6.2.0
0.61
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPLv2
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Any
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
None
No
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
4526 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
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
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
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
0
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
one
two
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
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}
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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