DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wikidot

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Text Files
Yes
No
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
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
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4578 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
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 Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
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
English, Polish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
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 Wikidot
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
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
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
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
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
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
Yes
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
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
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[[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://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 ======
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
= Centered line
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* 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


# 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}
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
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