| General Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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6.3.0
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0.61
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
|
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
|
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
|
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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BSD
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GPLv2
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GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
OS Independent
|
any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Zope
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
||
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
MariaDB
|
ZODB (zope object database)
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#zwiki on freenode
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
4692 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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 |
0
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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 |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
actions (PHP)
|
DTML
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | WackoWiki | Zwiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
Bare urls plus markup-specific link syntax. This and all following syntax examples depend on which markup mode is used for a page, including: restructured text, structured text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, html, plaintext.. |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
== 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** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
|
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
|
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
|
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
one two |
|
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
{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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| remove MediaWiki | remove WackoWiki | remove Zwiki | remove DokuWiki |