WackoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Version
6.3.0
0.61
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPLv2
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
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
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
None
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
4692 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
0
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
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
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 Zwiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki Zwiki 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
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
DTML
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki Zwiki 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 Zwiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[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 ==
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
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


- 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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