iKnow - a tiny wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wicked

General Features iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Version
1.2
6.2.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2011-02-10 (15 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-02-11 (15 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2026-03-25 (14 days ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
CodeBrewery
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
BSD
GPL 2
GPL 2
Programming Language
ASP.Net MVC 3 (C# with Razor view engine)
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone in need of a (really) tiny wiki or a internal knowledge database
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 +
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 7.0 +
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
ASP.Net MVC 3, WebMatrix
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server
MariaDB
None
None
Security/Anti-Spam iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
OpenID
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
No
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Usability iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
No
Media and Files iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Optional
No
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples iKnow - a tiny wiki WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
<a href="http://www.google.ch">ExternalLink</a>
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
<h1>Headline</h1>
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italic</i>
//italics//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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