WackoWiki vs. WikiNi vs. DokuWiki

General Features WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Version
6.3.0
0.5.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
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 WikiNi DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
4706 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
French
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Patch
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Patch
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Patch
Yes
Usability WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki WikiNi DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
[[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]]
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 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
** **
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
// //
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__ __
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
## ##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
@@ @@
<del>strikethrough</del>
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}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


1)
1)
1)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
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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