DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.3
6.1.29
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4471 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
No
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
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki WackoWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Title]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
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}
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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