Wala Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. alphawiki

General Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Version
1.1.7
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2026-03-30 (4 months ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Andreas Gohr
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL 2
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
personal, small to medium companies
private users, small teams
System Requirements Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
probably every OS
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Datastorage Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
diffs
None
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
No
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4693 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
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
No
Optional
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
Optional, PHP
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Optional
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki DokuWiki alphawiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
= headline =
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
**bold**
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
''italicized''
//italics//
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
__underlined__
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
monospaced.
''monospace''
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
N/A
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
----
----
{hr}
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