WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 days ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, 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
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any
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 (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
none
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
None
No
no
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
4485 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Optional
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
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 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
`monospaced`
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
optional or via css
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
indented text
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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
term:: definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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