giewiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.13.1
1.5.11c
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
6.3.0
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2026-07-18 (12 days ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2026-07-18 (12 days ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Ryan Norton
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
Python
C++
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
other
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
End users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
App Engine
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
unknown
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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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
Email notification
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
no
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Yes
Usability giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples giewiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!Headline
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
''Bald''
''' bold text '''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italy//
'' italic text ''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
start line with blank space.
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
] centred text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


Definition Lists
; term
: description
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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