WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wicked

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Version
6.2.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2026-03-25 (14 days ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
None
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
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Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
No
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
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 With a Title]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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