WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikiASP

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
FREE
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
ASP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
4526 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
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 TWiki WikiASP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki TWiki WikiASP
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
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 6
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italic_
''The quotation''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<space char here>This is mono
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
_This is Strike Through_
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Test
* Bullets
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
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

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
Horizontal Rule
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