| General Features | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.3.0.0
|
6.3.0
|
0.56
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-08-02 (13 years ago)
|
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-08-29 (13 years ago)
|
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
|
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
|
| Author |
J.W. Davidson
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Jaap Karssenberg
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache License 2.0
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
C#
|
PHP
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small organization to enterprise
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Private users, small teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
OS Independent
|
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS7 or IIS8
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
None
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
IronPython
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
|
| Datastorage | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
MariaDB
|
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
MS Membership and Roles
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
File permissions
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
4709 ⭐
|
| Common Features | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
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 |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, 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
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Links | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
All
|
None
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
IronPython
|
actions (PHP)
|
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | LynxWiki | WackoWiki | Zim | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
[[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]] |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
[[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 ====== |
=== Heading === |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
*bold* '''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italics// |
//italic// |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
+underlined+ |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
##monospace## |
``monospace`` |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
--strikethrough-- |
~~strike~~ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
superscript^234^ |
^^superscript^^ |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
water: H~2~O |
,,subscript,, |
_{sub} |
<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 |
{{./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%% |
not implemented |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
one two |
indent with tabs |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* 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 |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
- 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} |
not implemented |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
not implemented |
---- |
| remove LynxWiki | remove WackoWiki | remove Zim | remove DokuWiki |