LynxWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Hatta

General Features LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Version
1.3.0.0
0.12.0
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
legolas558
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
BSD
GPL 2
GPL v2
Programming Language
C#
JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
Advanced End Users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Operating System
Windows
OS Independent (Browser Application)
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
IronPython
JavaScript-capable browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Mercurial
Datastorage LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
MariaDB
None
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
Supports per-page AES encryption
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
n/a
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
4536 ⭐
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
2
English, Italian
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
IronPython
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Usability LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples LynxWiki Wiki on a Stick WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[WoaS test page]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold text*
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
/italics text/
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
+underlined+
_underlined text_
__underline__
__underlined__
n/a
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
##monospace##
''monospace''
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
[[Image::woas.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
N/A
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
n/a
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
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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