WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Hatta vs. Friki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Version
6.2.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.6.6
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Radomir Dopieralski
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL v2
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
private users and small teams
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any that can run or call Java
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Mercurial
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
None
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
56 ⭐
4573 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki Hatta Friki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
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
== 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**
'''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
n/a
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
{{{verbatim}}}
monospace
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
n/a
1. first
1. second
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
n/a
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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