| General Features | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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6.2.0
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1.32.2
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R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
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2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
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2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
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2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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BSD
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GPL
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Public Domain (!)
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
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Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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End Users/Desktop, Education
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
OS Independent
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
any
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any with PHP support
|
anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
None
|
MariaDB
|
No
|
no
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
4526 ⭐
|
54 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| 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 | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| 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 |
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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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Links | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
actions (PHP)
|
Optional
|
optional
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki | ErfurtWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''ialic text'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
optional or via css |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
==monospaced text== |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
optional or via css |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript text^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
optional or via css |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[link to the image.jpg] |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
<center>Centered</center> |
optional or via css |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
one two |
: indented line |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
; term : definition |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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