DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
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
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
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
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
None
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
4526 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 Zwiki
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
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
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Optional
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
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
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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