DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PageWork

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.0
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4526 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
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
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, 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
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
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
Horizontal Rule
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