WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 days ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
None
no
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Patch
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
4485 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Optional
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Optional
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
optional or via css
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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