WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. SubWiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 days ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Academic Free License
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
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
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
None
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
4485 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin SubWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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
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 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
N/A
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
`monospaced`
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
N/A
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
N/A
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
N/A
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}}
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
N/A
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
indented text
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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 2
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
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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