WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Hatta

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Version
6.3.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.67
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
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
Anyone
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Mercurial
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
MariaDB
None
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
# 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
55 ⭐
4706 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
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 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
n/a
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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