WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Version
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2006-02-07 (19 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C++
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
End users/Desktop
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
built-in
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
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 wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
unknown
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
4521 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
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
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
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
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
no
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
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 wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki wxWikiServer
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
] centred text
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
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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