WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wikepage

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2008.1
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Jose Carlos Medeiros
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
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
Private users, small groups
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Platform Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Server Independent
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
n/a
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
4551 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
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
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 Wikepage
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki Wikepage
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''Italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__Underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
With a space in front of the text
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
n/a
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
n/a
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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