DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4471 ⭐
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
''bold''
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
'''italic'''
 
//italics//
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



N/A
 
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
%%strikethrough%%
 
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
N/A
 
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
N/A
 
vvsubscriptvv
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
[ 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

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text 
Plugin
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

N/A
 
one
two
Bulleted Lists 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* list
or
- list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
# list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break
Definition Lists 
Plugin
 
Term:<def>
def
 
:term|definition
 
{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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