DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LynxWiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.0
1.3.0.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
J.W. Davidson
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small organization to enterprise
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Windows
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
IIS7 or IIS8
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
IronPython
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
MS Membership and Roles
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4526 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
IronPython
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
superscript^234^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
water: H~2~O
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
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
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. first numbered item
1. second 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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