DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wicked

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4629 ⭐
88 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
No
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Optional
Presentations
Plugin
No
No
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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