LynxWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.3.0.0
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
IronPython
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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4536 ⭐
Common Features LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
IronPython
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples LynxWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
N/A
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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