DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wikidot

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
6.3.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
Other
None
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4692 ⭐
55 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
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
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Perl
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Chat
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
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/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
= Centered line
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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