DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.0
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
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
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
# 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 ProWiki
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 ProWiki
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>text</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# numbered list
## numbered list
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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