WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WiGit vs. ikiwiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.1
2.67
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (today)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 day ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Remko Tronçon
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
other
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Private users
Anyone
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
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
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Git
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
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
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
4478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
0
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
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 WiGit ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki WiGit ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[InternalLink]
[[internal]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Headline
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*Bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_Italics_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
+underlined+
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
@monospace@
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!image.jpg!
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
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>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove WackoWiki remove DokuWiki remove WiGit remove ikiwiki