DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Hatta vs. Roadkill

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.1
1.6.6
1.6
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
27/04/2013
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2013-04-25 (12 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Radomir Dopieralski
C.Small
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL v2
MS-PL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
C#
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
IIS, Apache
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Mercurial
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
SQL Server, MongoDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
n/a
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
4577 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
3
Czech, English, Polish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
none
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki Hatta Roadkill
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[Pagename|linkname]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[[URL|linkname]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
== Large heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
** bold **
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
n/a
_underline_
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{{verbatim}}}
{{

monospace

}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
n/a
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
** sublist
* Bullet List
** Sub item
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


n/a
# Numbered list
## Sub item
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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